penfold25 - 1:29 pm on Jun 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

sure, but you cannot compare those institutions to normal websites. There is a reason why wikipedia rules the serps and as well as edu's. More often that not they are high quality deserve a special boost if any. Sure, one offs may occur but they like .gov are highly regulated and criticized internally. If you notice any issues you can definitely get your problem solved with some contact and im sure the penalties would be rather stiff if there is a serious breach. Unfortunately though it proves that some manual intervention is still required in the serps now and then for spammers. But i believe the benefits to the web far outway the negatives in giving them a benefit (although not sure they get much more)