Google insists that no manual intervention occurs in search results

Here is an article by Amit Singhal about Google Ranking where they list these three philosophies for search algorithms.

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention

With all the blogging about the new search engine Cuil, who state they are a direct competitor of Google, and the new Google Knol search. It's nice to see that Google steps up to directly counter the accusations of manual intervention of SERPs. Kudos to Google.