chicagohh - 2:07 pm on May 9, 2011 (gmt 0)

mgracen - you may be on to something...Most of the large companies that I have worked with either have terrible SEO teams or the internal bureaucracy is such that competitive SEO is just not possible. Buying links is often the only thing some of these people can think of doing and so they start out buying press releases and then move on to more blatant methods.