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Mel suggested the possibility of the Florida change being Hilltop a while back but, if the -rubbish results are the original derived set of 1000, as I'm confident they are, then the only way I can see the change being due to Hilltop is if Google applies Hilltop when it can come up with a suitably large set of results, and uses the orginally derived set when Hilltop can't manage it. If it's Hilltop, then it appears to be either one or the other, and not a combination when Hilltop can't get a suitably large set.
It could account for why people think that Google keeps a list of searchterms to apply an seo filter to (I've never bought into the list idea). But as to whether or not Florida is partially cracked - I'm afraid not. It could be Hilltop, it could be an seo filter, it could be LocalRank (tho I think not), or it could be something entirely different. It could still be something as simple as a devaluing of same-source links.
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