I realize that running an operation the size and complexity of something like Google is well beyond the comprehension of most mere mortals, but I can't help wondering about how google prioritizes some things. Specifically, we all see posts on here almost daily from people who have had their one little site banned or heavily penalized for various transgretions, usually these are small sites with extremely limited impact on the search categories they hope to show up in. On the other hand we have the monumentally successful and pervasive spam networks that absolutely dominate hundreds of keyword phrases with blatently cloaked pages, thousands of cross-linked domains, tens of thousands of obviously cloned pages with no actual content cranked out by scripts that are designed for the sole purpose of manipulating google to leach as much traffic as possible to their affiliate accounts, that just merrily dominate the serps month after month despite the fact that they are impossible to miss, must surely get reported over and over again and are sometimes even discussed in great detail on forums such as this one. There is one specific guy who caused quite a hubbub here about 2 months ago due to the sheer magnitutde of his spam network and the fact that his 100,000+ cloaked, cloaned, crosslinked and content-less spam pages pretty much break every google rule there is, and yet he's still right up there dominating hundreds and hundreds of search terms. How can google as an organization possibly ignore someone like that? What kind of message do you think it sends to the legitimate webmasters he is displacing month after month? Spam pays and the more aggressive the better. I have to admit I am extremely envious of both the mind-boggling scope of his network and his apparently untouchable status with you guys.
