Anyone still using anchor text for link building?

[replica]

Hi there,
According to the new Panda update the use of anchor text is pretty useless.
What are your thoughts about it?

[kittubille]

Nope.....Google still like anchor text backlinks :-)

[verasafe]

Hmm, it depends on how effective you use anchor text to procure high results in the search engine result pages. But now, Google is putting anchor text spam penalty to those who use the same anchor text over and over again.