This topic came up in a month-old submission about why eBay lost many of its organic rankings in Google's Panda 4.0 release. Some of the comments from that disc

This topic came up in a month-old submission about why eBay lost many of its organic rankings in Google's Panda 4.0 release. Some of the comments from that discussion seem quite relevant to this one. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788804 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788804 When Slate refers to eBay research, is it based on methods that allowed ads like this gem? Vomit sale New & used Vomit. Check out the deals now! www.ebay.com (http://www.wordstream.com/images/panda-4-ebay-2.jpg http://www.wordstream.com/images/panda-4-ebay-2.jpg) If so, can we really take their findings seriously?