From: chuck goolsbee

** I assume it is myth, but I've never heard anyone from Google make any statements that definitively debunks it. Debunking this pervasive among webmasters and "SEO Experts" myth sure would be a very UN-evil thing to do if true (Hint hint you Google-folk!)

Actually they did, once, in an obscure place: http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/07/03/1352239.shtml Whenever I refer customers to that, they just tell me oh, that's from 2002, my SEO person knows that Google penalizes for sharing IP's now. I guess Google needs a time stamped banner on their site that says "As of <time>, we do not penalize for sharing IP's." so SEO 'experts' can't argue it. David