The Register UK: Google bug blocks thousands of sites
You may have noticed something strange lately at Google. Some searches that should display thousands of results only show a handful, even though Google itself says there are thousands of matches. This "bug," highlighted by The Register, causes Google to display highly reduced result sets. The explanation hypothesized in the article is an algorithm change designed to thwart Google page spam. Author Andrew Orlowski goes so far as to suggest that Google is moving away from the famous PageRank to place more emphasis on anchor text.
