"The author took the lazy way out, appealing to emotion and outrage, rather than actually doing the experiments to see how google differentiates between subdoma

"The author took the lazy way out, appealing to emotion and outrage, rather than actually doing the experiments to see how google differentiates between subdomains and subdirectories." That presumes that the algorithm behaves consistently across sites & that the author of the article has dozens of sites that were hit by Panda to do a variety of scientific subdomain tests on it. Of course, neither of which are actually true.