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Subject: Re: ICD Google Count Slips Even Lower

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 17:33:28 12/12/04

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On December 12, 2004 at 15:48:02, Roger D Davis wrote:

>On December 12, 2004 at 13:37:54, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On December 12, 2004 at 10:33:56, Steve B wrote:
>>
>>>After a historic rise to 31 in the all important Google Count,ICD is now back
>>>down into the low 80's:
>>>
>>>http://www.google.com/search?q=chess+computer&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=80&sa=N
>>>
>>>i am starting to suspect foul play
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Steve
>>
>>80's?
>>
>>I show it ranked 31 still. And there are still 11 sites ahead of it that are
>>non-functioning.
>>
>>The program I am using to test all this, including the new keywords is actually
>>being developed by Google and a partner.
>>
>>I was offered to test because I was one of the first people given gmail
>>accounts.
>>
>>Peter
>
>
>If a site isn't functioning, then how can Google crawl it and pagerank it? These
>should drop out on the next crawl.

Google rates sites based on returned search results, and page clicks.

Even if someone clicks said link and it gives an Error 404 message, it still
counts as a click.

That is the one serious downfall of google.

Peter



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