Re: The Page on Google; Search.html

["B. Gillessen" b.gillessen@xxxxxxxx]

At 07:10 21.11.2002 cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Robert:

Oh -- great! Erroneously the crowd got some insight of what is going
on behind the curtain separating the cracks from the rest of the
world ... But unfortunately, no dirty secrets came up, nothing
forbidden, no backbiting.

> Just for the hell of it, I plugged "xywrite" into the Google web
> server to see where The Page comes up in the listing. It's third,
> after two links to Diane Fisher's site. The next listing is an
> article on XyWrite in Wikipedia, which may have been written or
> edited by Fisher. In any case, it includes a link to her site,
> which itself links to the Wiki article. That's a lot of Annie
> Google's pushing.

> How, I wonder -- if at all -- can we arrange it so that Google lists
> us first, so that hitting the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on a
> "xywrite" search leads directly to our page? Would it work to add
> "xywrite" case variants to the META "keywords" tag. E.g.,

If I may meddling with this -- I *think* that Google has a "weighted"
ranking, i. e. the more frequent people click on a site listed by
Google the higher it is ranked in the next comparable listing by Google.
Therefore, searching with Google for "xywrite" from time to time and
clicking onto the XyWWWeb-Link should ensure that the site is ranked
first.

Another alternative might be to *pay* for a higher ranking. I think
Google -- as some others (search engines, politicians) -- is bribable.
(Google is not only your friend but the friendship of Google can also
be bought.) But I am sure they would phrase it in a different way.

B. Gillessen