Just a shame it doesn't actually work. Ask any webmaster. Or check out the discussion groups on WebMasterWorld.
Start at http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/ and read. Disaster after disaster - no search integrity at all. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34588.htm too - "Big Daddy" is a disaster that Google is desperately trying to out from under. Simple test - do a search on Google. Any search. Let it default to 10 hits per page, and collect all the pages. Then repeat the search, asking for 100 hits per page. Compare the results. They will be different. What they don't tell you is that each of your 10-per-page searches might be served by a different data center, using different indices and different databases. Google is a sham, as perusal of the sources above will rapidly show. It succeeds because the mass of people trust what computers produce and there are no checks or balances. Internet search engines are the largest unregulated aspect of human activity. And Google's database(s) are also hopelessly out of date. I have logs from my web site that show Google (despite its "sitemaps" programme) simply hasn't spidered changed pages for weeks. MSN, Yahoo, Ask (and even IBM Almaden) visit much more frequently. If any serious CMG-type person did a rigorous analysis of Google and published it, the stock price would crater. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
