Rasputin - 4:45 pm on Feb 16, 2013 (gmt 0)

I can also confirm that both us and several of our previous page 1 competitors (and between us the best sites for the subject, even if G don't like my sites they must like one of us) are all huddled toogether around page 60.

Some kind of consequence of favouring brand names, allowing brand name sites to have tens or hundreds of listings, and implementing very broad synonyms rather poorly taken together seems to be at the heart of the problem.

Someone came close perhaps in a recent comment in a different thread when they said that G now want to 'upgrade' good sites rather than 'downgrade' poor sites - so many of us with 'average' sites (ie not major brand names) are now pushed down.