pontifex - 4:05 pm on Mar 3, 2011 (gmt 0)

I refuse to jump the "thin" reason here. A page that is saying

"lady gaga - bad romance. 320kbps stereo MP3 file"

and has a Javascript MP3 player with lyrics scrolling by is NOT thin, just not fat in terms google might see it. Nonetheless: the page is the artist and the song, including the lyrics scrolling by. Lots of content (megabytes)... If they devalue that page, I can either start to farm content around it (lyrics? the bio of lady gaga? strange dresses for girls?) for big G or get some cheap labor texts around it - also going "farming"... That can not be the intention!

Google just underestimated the complexity of their own algo change in the long tail and how many innocent small sites will be hit by cleaning the stuff out. They did a pretty good job in many areas, but for some previously solid "thin" pages (gateways to GREAT photos, PDF downloads, video - heck even Linux disc images) their update does not fit...

By the way: I have not changed much on my site and got a very good start of the day, almost on the same level pre-farmer. Maybe that is a good sign and I will start to counteract next Monday, when I am done reading all your posts ;-) I will share my findings, then...

just 2 cents!
P