[plug] Aint it the truth !

[Ben New]

Denis Brown wrote:
> 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
> 

Google works like this:

http://www.google.com.au/technology/index.html


-- 
Ben @ Leftclick
http://www.leftclick.com.au/


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