Google admitted it was working on a bug

[janeth]

Did anyone see this http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/33448.html

On Sunday Google admitted to the Washington Post that it was working on a bug it had found which was withholding thousands of legitimate search results from its users. The bug was in response to another bug: Google's susceptibility to being gamed by spammers who set up 'link farms' to tripwire its PageRank™ algorithm. "Is Google starting to show signs of strain against spammers and Web scammers?", asked the Post.

[janeth]

also notice the dates it is right before everything went crazy with Google.