nickreynolds - 11:40 pm on Dec 14, 2012 (gmt 0)

they've also assembled a fairly massive list of webmasters, linked those webmasters to their attributable output, via gwmt, crawling tools, manual sleuthing, assigned ranking scores +ve and -ve, then apply this to the output of the other Algos

My experience would definitely suggest to me that some of my sites have been hit simply because they are mine.

If what I think scooterdude is suggesting is correct, i find this rather worrying!