>My memory is inside Google we were discussing this risk back in 2003, probably earlier.
Yeah but that was before they hired the incompetent grifter Prabhakar Raghavan and eventually made him head of Search.
I think it's nick fox now and he's old school and as competent as they come
Seems like post hoc fallacy.
But people were complaining about the sAme issues under Matt Cutts. Also, there has been A Ton more money and work chasing the SEO farm game. Now big private equity companies have focused on buying a stable of big brands to do the same that used to be garage startups.