Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Predictions:

1. Whitelabels (and things like most hosted tubes) will finally be severely hit. Most won't see this one coming and will be dumbfounded by it.

2. Google will start using IP, server, and whois signals more. Many people will get fucked as it's almost totally unexpected.

3. Nothing much will happen to the tubes or filelockers. At most there won't be as many entries for one of their domains on the same page.

4. The tops brands will become more solidly entrenched on the first page for relevant results more so than ever before.

5. The final nail in the coffin for standard link trading for SEO finally will come. It will be useless or even a big negative.

6. Porn will lose overall. Some sort of algorithmic firewall between porn and mainstream will further emerge. Google will soon be able to predict whether something is adult content not primarily by the actual content but rather by linking relationships. The End Game will eventually be that you will not come up for any non-adult terms once your site is classified as porn. For now the effect will be milder and only impacting some searches and positions (i.e. you might get pushed back a page or two for terms which aren't clearly adult).

7. Lots of pissed off webmasters as usual.

8. It will be rolled out either this Friday or next Friday. Probably next Friday.