I know this might have already been discussed, but found something of interest, the paid directories has got deindexed, is it just another algorithmic deviation or manual adjustments by google, looks like manual if you go through the following presentation given by mattcutts of google at the San Jose conference, GOOGLE dislikes paid links, but how do they know who has paid and who has not, since paid directories also accept free listings http://www.mattcutts.com/files/paid-links-presentation.ppt