Negative SEO / Google Bowling / Hurting your competitors

Further evidence that you can in fact hurt competitors, to add to the debate we had about this a few weeks back:

Q: How does Google look at the issue that I can buy suspect links and point them at my competitor?

Matt: We try very hard so that someone can’t Googlebowl another person. We try to do things algorithmically, we use manual means.

'we try very hard'........ not 'it can't be done'. As far as I'm concerned, I'm now firmly down on the 'it can be done' side of the fence.
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