Google has 23,000 employees ... . I'm pretty sure they could stay ahead of the bad guys if they wanted to. In the past there were people within Google who had

Google has 23,000 employees ... . I'm pretty sure they could stay ahead of the bad guys if they wanted to. In the past there were people within Google who had the skill, knowledge, organizational connections and authority to quickly and gracefully reduce the problem of link spam without harming the bottom line too much. I think we all loved their early work, and our love helped propel their little company to multibillions-per-year. I don't think that kind of unique early experience and subsequent problem-solving effectiveness is snap-in interchangeable. Some of those "rock stars" work at Facebook now. Google might not be capable of fixing the problem gracefully without them.