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Old 12-03-2003, 08:52 AM   #3 (permalink)
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No. It's not a filter - money-words, or any other kind. It's a completely different set of results. A Hilltop-type, expert-based system would account for several things that people are seeing:-

(1) The idea of a list of searchterms. It would appear like that because that type of system cannot create a set of results for all searchterms, but only for some of them. That's why people conceived the idea of a list - because the serps for some searchterms were the same in both 'normal' and Florida results, but not for others.

(2) It would account for people seeing fewer commercial pages at the top of serps, because expert pages (not ranked themselves) would tend to point to information pages rather than to commercial ones.

(3) It would account for many home pages missing from the serps, because expert pages would tend to point to specific information pages within a site rather than to home pages.
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