Dear Manas-babu, i really didn't mean to sound off the paranoia alarms with that statement. However since inception,i've been an avid user of the engine [have the IE toolbar too !!], but of late search results with particular combinations have begun to throw up a pattern. As an experiment switched to Teoma, and did a parallel search. And lo behold the results were different. Now one can argue that the search engines and the caching algorithms being different [Google's proprietary while afaik Teoma's inktomi clone], the results would be different. But point is the pages are ranked on the basis of semantics and then the rankings should be similar. More or less another red herring was that the usage of some buzzwords [tech based] lead to pages which should not be ranked that high in the hierarchy. Now was worried with all these anomalies, what finally came out to light was an article published in either [am not sure 'cause in a week i tend to go thru all these and more] b'world or outlook or week highlighting the page ranking policy based on the sponsor ads. this is somewhat in nature to the fiasco faced by cnet.com downloads where payment could ensure that the pages were ranked a bit higher up. in short space selling. coupled with the appearances of the sponsor links and their rankings within the top 100 in google, i am a bit sceptical nowadays. not that i trust teoma completely too. but there you are. sorry about the fact that i couldn't provide the link to the article but will try and dig up the magazine as soon as possible regards sankarshan
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