[WikiEN-l] Search positioning

[Steven Walling]

Three words: Google is evil. You aren't gonna find out unless they publish
their algorithms. Which they aren't.

On Jan 12, 2008 12:53 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone have any guesses for the cause of the reletive positioning of
> English Wikipedia in the following google searches?
>
> BLAS wikipedia
>
> BLAS
>
>
> Results may differ: you're seeing the same effect I am if the first
> doesn't return english wikipedia anywhere in the first ten pages, but
> the second has it as the third hit. Obviously, throwing wikipedia in
> as a keyword isn't the right way to bring wikipedia up in a result,
> but a lot of people do it, and it's usually very effective.  I've
> found some cases where it has stopped being effective and I'm not sure
> why.
>
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