Comment Define "intelligent" (Score 1) 286
You have it entirely backwards. Google has made the only intelligent decision here, by saying that they cannot possibly gauge the quality of all websites manually, and sticking to their guns about doing it programatically. That way, suing them over your position in the rankings is much more difficult because they can prove a lack of favoritism.
Google is making a smart move from a legal CYA perspective. But their bread and butter is ultimately the usefulness of their results, not the objectivity of their algorithm.
