outland88 - 7:58 pm on Jul 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

I have seen Russian (?) groups do what you mentioned and it would be matching up to Google IP’s. You can see the ru domains plus Ask, AOL, MSN and a few others if you look deep. It’s a fooler. What their purpose was I couldn’t totally understand. You’ll suddenly get a tremendous burst in traffic and sometimes rankings. It normally only affects a few keywords. After it happened to me four times I’m certainly don’t complain. All I know is someone certainly knows how to get traffic and exploit the Google algo. It was one of the few times I was hoping I would get e-mail from the company but didn’t. We're all amateurs when it comes to what these people are doing.