mfishy - 6:36 pm on Aug 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

To me, it looks less like a hand coded serp, and more like they gave a group of sites more bonus points if they contained part of the query string

Nah, this has been going on for well over a year. Some serps do not move...I mean at all....ever...through every update. Many are not .gov sites or anything close to that - simply old sites from the Y! directory.

For a while you could actually see the h=1 in the url but they hid that...This is not exactly a secret within the SEO community btw (or among the employees of all the SE's) :)