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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 00:56:55 -0800
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From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler AT mail DOT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
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At 08:47 PM 2/15/2003 -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:48, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > > On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > > > > Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be
> > > > > enightening)?  I see nothing about this in Googles documentation 
> of Page
> > > > > Ranking.  And, google isn't the only search engine out 
> there.  I'd think
> > > > > you'd want to try and get as much exposure as possible in as many 
> engines
> > > > > as possible.
> > > >
> > > > An interview on slashdot some time back.
> > > And you believe everything you read on slashdot ?-)
> >
> > It was from the google director of technology.
> > http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/03/1352239&mode=thread
> >
> > BUT: it doesn't have the comment I recalled. Ermm, oops.
>
>Oops, indeed :)  Thanks for the article, though.  I might continue my own
>research as a side hobby.

This article (<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google.html>) has 
some good information about Google's ranking algorithms and the people who 
work to overcome them.

Jeremy



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