I would say 'Twaddle' - there is no way on this green earth that Google can discount Directories. At this rate it will start saying that Blogs are link farms.

Some Directories are rubbish but others are not and use Anchor text and relativity of content. I'll go further and on record in a public forum.

If Google wish to become a totalitaristic empire - determining how people earn their money in their website designs and charges then they are on one road and one road only. Downhill.

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