europeforvisitors - 3:43 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

As others have suggested, Google may have simply begun peeling off its filters before a major update or the deployment of new and better algorithms or filters.

In my opinion, that's the most likely and believable reason why junk pages may be doing well in some categories. To repeat a phrase that I used earlier, we may be seeing the storm before the calm.