From what I recollect no one accused you of anything, they simply asked a question about google bowling, even warning that individuals were out there doing that and you said it doesn’t work because Google said so.
Well I’m telling you it did and still does. The fact that it comes from Google that they have “resolved” the issue in no way makes it true, any more than me saying it isn’t true.
Quoting Google on your part doesn’t prove a thing, and your fooling yourself if you think different.
Again, I’m certainly not going to out anyone for the purpose of convincing you of the obvious.
For Christ’s sake do a little research beyond google’s t’s and c’s.
Look at any bh forum. Here, let me do it for you…
SEOblackhat.com ha s dedicated top-level thread that specifically says,”Googlebowling, Toolbar abuse, Programming and Script Development Discussions”
Beyond that ixian I recommend to FIND a blackhat and ask them what they think.
You’ll be surprised how common it is.
I know of a dozen programs that will do it, but for the sake of this arguement I’ll only tell you one – X-rumer
If not, well then we agree to disagree and your justifications (google’s t’s and c’s) are no better than mine (I know several bh’s doing it – oh, and I’ve also had 2 clients that we had to implement firewalls on their ISP’s after identifying this technique).
And I’ll leave you with this excerpt from the Google Webmaster Central Blog Chat on October 22nd regarding this exact issue;
ResdazMedia, Rehoboth Beach, DE: Some blackhat linked to my blog from 300+ adult splogs as revenge for calling him out. My blog had #1 ranking for it’s keywords, now it is on the second page at best. Can mass amounts of links from “bad neighborhoods” cause a drop in site ranking?
Nathan J: We work hard to make sure a site can’t have a negative effect on another site. Feel free to report spam if you think you find some – https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
Why do we need to report it if it doesn’t happen? Why do they have the option built in next to their “report link buying” request???
And here’s yet another;
Anonymous: When checking out your links to not found pages, what would you do about links from spammy sites? In fact, what to do about links from spammy sites in general?
Wysz: In general, it’s not something that you should worry about. We understand that you can’t control all links to your site, and work hard to make our algorithms robust enough to prevent this type of activity from harming your site’s ranking.
If you do notice any spam sites that are affecting Google’s search results, please let us know by submitting a spam report:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35265
“In general” let them know about what???? Something that isn’t happening?
If you want to contact me directly, I will absolutely change your mind on this with a real case study and robust reports to back it up…but unfortunately I cannot and will not ‘OUT’ someone simply to prove an obvious point.
Sorry mate.