brotherhood_of_LAN - 6:21 pm on Feb 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

The fact that all webmasters who have a concern with Google (i.e.) all of us is not only protecting the integrity of their engine, but also promotes it too surely!

I suppose you are right in a way about all of us guessing. It is worth pointing out though, the results of Google searches are there to be seen, if I took the first 100 pages for a particular keyword and studied them (and those who link to them) furiously, then I may not be 100% correct with my hypothesis on the way the search engine works, but maybe I can get CLOSE to 100%

one thing i do know is that the QUANTITY of links pointing to your domain are nowhere near as important as the quality of the links. You can have 100 links pointing to you on google and get PR6

All in all, I would LIKE the inner workings of Google to remain secret, because I would hate to think that other webmasters would have the time to exploit it when Im fine with the way Google works just now :)

Keep up the good work Google