When might Google take action on an entire freehost?
5Freehosts: you recently mentioned that Google reserves the right to take action on an entire freehost if a very large fraction of the sites on the freehost are spammy or low-quality. Can you go into more detail about this? Matt Cutts, Mountain View
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