Jay,
Yeah. It's a whole new ball game with Google unless they update again before Xmas and bring back results similar to the past- before this update.
One thing I don't get if it's AdWords based- why would they leave some high competition phrases alone like 'web hosting' or 'web design company'?
They must have known people would be super pissed at them across the board. Why not initiate all phrases at once?
Man, I've read nearly *every* theory out there and there is always something that doesn't synch up with what I watch.
Some results are just plain WACKED OUT.
Look at the #1 spot for this search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search
WTF? Out of 380k pages an Ice Hockey site is #1. LOL.
Most of the results do seem relevant though. But why is that site, under this algo #1? I don't think even GOOGLE knows.