Re: Search for `Debian' gives EFF as top hit ?
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:08:09PM -0500, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=debian
> > gives the top hit as www.eff.org, not www.debian.org. Now the EFF is
> > a very worthy organisation with an excellent PageRank I'm sure, but
> > it's probably not what people were looking for when they asked for
> > `Debian'.
> >
> > Looking at the `cached' page, which is a little garbled, I see:
> > These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: debian
> >
> > I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening.
>
> Well, it must be because Google does result sorting based on how many
> people link to the result (AFAIK). Because we have the proper META
> keyword elements there. I don't really know that there's anything we
> can do.
I believe it's a recent bug because I checked the same search query a few
weeks ago and EFF didn't show up on the first page at all. (And it
shouldn't.)
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