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graywolf
10-02-2005, 10:12 PM
I was poking around on Google today and noticed something pretty interesting. Google seems to go pretty wide across a document to try and find matches. For example look at this serp [aardvark mastodon zosterops] (http://www.google.com/search?q=aardvark+mastodon+zosterops) I'm not sure what those files are used for or why they are available on a public webserver, but I find it pretty interesting that google will search that far across a very lengthy document to find a match.

For very specific searches this would be a favorable behavior, however for the vast majority I searches I'm not sure this is that useful.

gemini
12-12-2005, 01:45 AM
Interesting test Michael, and the interview too btw.

How about expanding the test and linking to the relevant pages from a different domain the same way like you linked out and see what happens?