tedster - 9:05 am on Jun 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

Very well said, Commerce - excellent points. I would add, however, web developers can become focused on user-experience issues to the exclusion of findability concerns, When that happens, their websites confuse search engines and make their job harder.

That's a lot of what these recent communications are about. If we want the help that Google can give our site, then we also need to understand what they wrestle with, what their current focus and limitations are, and so on.

It's all a work in progress, both on the developers' side and on Google's. The more they can tell us about the state of their art, the better things can be.