[code_duck]

Google thinks about all sorts of things that have never been related to reality, or have ceased to be accurate because they are being heavily gamed. Then, to adapt to SEO gaming, they start to ignore things that were once or are potentially useful. I loathe the entire system.

[nostromo]

No kidding. And remember, if you're doing good in search, they can destroy you overnight. I have a nonprofit wiki where people can share code, and about a month ago my search traffic dropped 95% for no reason. I've never done SEO on this site -- it doesn't even have ads or links for christ's sake. I submitted a reinclusion request which was "processed" - but nothing has changed.

The Google gave, and the Google hath taken away.

[kadavy]

Agreed. There is some really shitty content that gets ranked highly on Google. We still need a better search engine.