Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Ben Finney: > > >> I guess it's more of a Google QA issue > > > > No, if the pages exist and other pages tend to treat them as > > interesting (i.e. interesting pages link to those pages), Google > > is working as advertised if it indexes and reports them. > > Sorry, but this is just wrong. If the page is not interesting to a > particular query and its sender, it's got no place in the search > results. Searching isn't about spec conformance, it's about results.
That's why the statement above is qualified. Google's Page Rank algorithm — its heuristic for "is the page interesting to a particular querent" — is advertised to be largely driven by other pages (which have their own Page Rank affecting their weight) linking to the page under consideration. So, if this is indeed what occurs, Google is working as advertised. Now that (reportedly) these pages under discussion have a standard "please don't spider" request, perhaps this issue has become moot. -- \ “Never use a long word when there's a commensurate diminutive | `\ available.” —Stan Kelly-Bootle | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
