[plug] Aint it the truth !

[Denis Brown]

At 10:11 12/11/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>In message <5.1.0.14.2.20031112095252.04368ab0 at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
>on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:08:42AM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> > try "australia" and you'll see 40 million plus for Google, 1727
> > - that is NOT a typo - for MSN.
>
>Let me guess: "Perth Linux Users' Group (Australia)" gets a negative
>number of hits on MSN? ;-)

Errr... no actually.  4284 to be precise.   How odd that PLUG is more 
widely known than "australia"!!!???   Something to do with 
capitalisation?   Nope, "Australia" also gets 1727 on MSN.

So, how DO search bots work?   I presume they just crawl over the web 
starting at www.a.[com|org|net|gov|edu|whatever] and finish up at 
www.zzzzzzzzzzzz.[com|...|...|whatever] and attempt to open pages found 
along the way.   Page contents are read and indexed, recursing through the 
tree, then the next addy is tried.   That being the case, how would it be 
possible to so cripple a search engine's hit count?   Maybe all those 
patches are taking up Bill's disk space :-(

Cheers,
Denis


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