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Re: [OT] Googling...



On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:17:01 +0100 (CET)
Pedro Hernandez <phph109@yahoo.es> wrote:

<snip>
> So how come that searching for 'miserable failure' lists a page (GWB
> bio) as number one, when that page contains none of the words in the
> search? Is that becaus people "send google false/doctored urls"
> (whatever that means)?

Yes. It's done by having a link on several websites that point to GWB's
bio. The words in the previously mentioned links are "miserable
failure", so Google's smart servers automatically associate the two and
then the next time someone does a search for "miserable failure" it
returns what it saw someone else say was a good result for those terms.

Note, however, it takes several webpages doing this before it has the
desired effect. Plus, of course, Google has to know about the webpage
before it can start searching it...

HTH,
Jacob

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