metaman - 2:22 pm on Jul 27, 2000 (gmt 0)

JamesR, I noticed the same thing. I find it gives the exact same results only this point system is showing up as well. I'm sure they both use the same database and algo.

Seth, good observation.

The top 8 sites under a search for "internet" all rank at 351. I wonder what determines a higher rank when they are tied?

As far as key phrases go:

3 word phrases seem to range from 15000-up
"florida real estate" - 15897
"stuffed koala bear" - 85553

2 word phrases seem to go about 12000-up
"real estate" - top 9 all at 12871
"computer game" - 15462 (98202 documents found)
"mole rats" - 52928 (366590 docs found)

Those last two are puzzling. There is more competition for "mole rats" than for "computer game"? Hmm, that kind of throws things off if we're assuming that the rankings correlate with number of documents found (low numbers for high competition).

Possibly they correlate to the number of times that phrase is searched on. That would make more sense but your guess is as good as mine...