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by yellowapple 3410 days ago
Not a Google employee, but I reckon ranking down sites with shared IP addresses would disproportionately impact sites on shared servers regardless of the reason. Plenty of websites out there rely on cheap/free hosting providers that shove everything behind an Apache or nginx instance with a single address. This is especially common/useful now that SNI is mainstream and widely supported.