tedster - 2:35 am on May 31, 2010 (gmt 0)

To be fair, the full context of that statement was historical - "the point where synonyms and actual strategic placement of KW played in ranking content. Google is becoming increasingly smarter at identifying better written content."

Even now, my sense is that Google is trying to become smarter - even if some SERPs don't show good results at all for the moment.