The worst SEO advice ever given?

This is really funny...Here's some SEO "advice" from some of the big shots at Google:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-answers-seo-questions/13731/

The only real info is the confirmation that Google does try to weigh links in seperate parts of the pages differently.

"Zareen Kazim: Our link analysis is getting much more sophisticated than the original PageRank used to be. To answer your question, we may treat links across different areas in a different way, as some areas of a page might not be as relevant to the content of the page as others. Check out Matt’s video where he talks about links in paragraphs":

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0fgh5RIHdE&feature=player_embedded