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by andrew1
5637 days ago
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> You type in words that you expect to be in the pages you're looking for, and the search engine lists pages that actually contain ALL of those words. It's not as simple as that though is it? Otherwise how would those GoogleBombs or whatever they're called work where searching for 'warmongering idiot' or something turn up George Bush's biography on whitehouse.gov. I think search result quality is a bit more involved than just testing whether a page contains a set of words. |
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Google bombs work because Google includes in the words of the current page, words in the links leading to the page (inside the anchor), and even, I believe, words in the page linking to the current page, outside of the link itself.
And then fields are weighted to calculate relevance. Those long, long urls with the title of the page in the url started to appear and proliferate when people noticed that words in the url were given an important boost factor by Google.
This broke the Internet a little, by the way. That's why we need links shorteners now, with urls containing whole goddamn paragraphs.