Farbeit for me to disagree with you prof, only when you are wrong, which you are not because google are usually unresponsive.
But..
There was a 8 pagerank site using my xml feed for content, but were hiding the content with an “invisible” css command. Generally speaking although not exclusively, they were outranking me for every word I wrote.
I put in a report to google and the high serp results for their pages that were nothing but what I wrote were gone by the weekend and the firm were downranked to a 4 rank on the next pr update.
Maybe it was the pagerank that got noticed in the report, which led to the quick action?