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Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?


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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