Also worth noting is that shortly after Panda was released, Google’s MichaelWyszomierski said that “Removing low quality pages or moving them to a different domain could help your rankings for the higher quality content.
With Google's Panda Update, low-quality content can impact an entire domain, but removing these pages -- or moving them to a different domain -- can help your rankings, says Google's MichaelWyszomierski.
Google's MichaelWyszomierski posted: So Google is denying manual intervention here (Google's Amit Singhal also denied manually improving rankings to the Wall Street Journal), but that doesn't mean Google hasn't rolled out some sort of minor update...