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Mel · 12-29-2003, 05:14 AM

I am not at all sure what the details of Googles new algo are and they change so fast that its very difficult to track, but so far It seems to me that there is a totally different method of selecting the batch of pages which they consider to be relevant to a particular search term before they start the ranking process.

I have concluded this on only anecdotal evidence, based in part on pages which used to rank highly for certain search terms, but which now rank 9999 or worse, but if you add a modifier to some of those terms the pages again rank #1.

I conclude therefor that the relevancy ranking algo is not all that different, but the method of choosing the initial batch of pages considered for rankings on that term has changed very much.

12-29-2003, 05:14 AM	#12 (permalink)
Mel Banned Join Date: 10-13-03 Posts: 172 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	I am not at all sure what the details of Googles new algo are and they change so fast that its very difficult to track, but so far It seems to me that there is a totally different method of selecting the batch of pages which they consider to be relevant to a particular search term before they start the ranking process. I have concluded this on only anecdotal evidence, based in part on pages which used to rank highly for certain search terms, but which now rank 9999 or worse, but if you add a modifier to some of those terms the pages again rank #1. I conclude therefor that the relevancy ranking algo is not all that different, but the method of choosing the initial batch of pages considered for rankings on that term has changed very much.