[Web4lib] Another Google question

[Jorge Serrano Cobos]

The keyword here (about the original question of Bernie) is SPAM. 
 SEO´s and spammers are querying the search engine´s database constantly 
about how many and what kind of links are pointing to certain website, in 
order to obtain those links to rank better. And the search engine knows 
that.
 SEO´s community agrees that it shows only "a representative percentage of 
links". Others say it shows only links from webs with more than 4 PR 
(Pagerank).
 You can compare this with Yahoo, for instance with
www.loc.gov<http://www.loc.gov>
:
 Google
Command: link
Links: 24700
 
http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&newwindow=1&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-43%2CGGLD%3Aes&q=link%3Awww.loc.gov&meta
=
 Yahoo
Command: linkdomain
Links:1.910.000
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3Awww.loc.gov&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
 Cheers and sorry for my english (I´m spaniard),
 -- 
Jorge Serrano Cobos
Information Architect
http://www.masmedios.com
 2005/7/6, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>: 
> 
> Patricia F Anderson wrote:
> > Ijust tried a search for the word "the". Reported results were
> > 3,190,000,000. Maximum displayed results were 946. "Repeat the
> > search" button yielded the same number. I tried a few others,
> > with equally unpredictatble results.
> 
> Perhaps they have a filter that can tell real searchers apart from
> librarians just trying to test the system. For example, no real
> searchers would be interested in more than the first 900 hits, so
> if you still click "next page", you are just testing.
> 
> I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what would be the point in finding
> the 947th and 948th hit for any search expression?
> 
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
> Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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