2clean - 10:39 am on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

It would be daft for a search engine not to use some of the Whois information as part of an evaluation mechanism for determining whether something is legit or not. Although with all the domain name cloaking tools the extent to which this is still as effective as some years ago is questionable.

However, as G's results are now so much in flux, can you exclude that this is not just one of those situations.