Google top 10s are self-affirming

Interesting article on K5 noting that, with the release of Google APIs, the practice of Google Bombing may be exacerbated inadvertently by "Google Boxes", ie, engines that list top sites on subject X via Google. "Remember that Google uses links as votes, which in turn determine relevancy. By embedding these Google Boxes sites are creating recursive link structures. In other words, sites are querying Google to find the most authoritative links on a topic and then creating links to the results, which in turns makes them authoritative. The rating system is essentially feeding itself." However, sites such as blogdex avoid this by using a redirect. Perhaps Google should insist that Google API users set redirects...
(From Kuro5hin)