As for google, they sent me this:
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Thank you for your note. We understand your frustration and are constantly working to improve the quality of our search results. We've devoted a section of our site to helping webmasters understand some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index. Please visit our Webmaster Guidelines at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html for information on creating and maintaining a 'Google-friendly' website.
If you encounter sites that are trying to deceive our web crawlers, please submit a report at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html. We use these reports to collect data that our engineers use to devise scalable solutions to fight spam in our search results. While we do not always take action on individual sites as a result of these reports, please be assured that we are using the information to make large-scale improvements to our system.
We appreciate your assistance in maintaining the quality of our search results.
Regards,
The Google Team
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So you can make of that what you will.
Alex