smallcompany - 5:36 pm on Jul 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

brand

Do you find that (over the time) Google "learns" what to associate with the brand, and therefore make the "brand" showing onto other keywords more if the brand is more popular (popular = more links with brand in anchored text)?

For example, if the popular car maker has 1,000 incoming links onto brand itself, and the other one has 2,000, would you expect that the popularity of the second one helps in showing onto "car" or "car maker" term in positions that are higher than of the first one - assuming that they have around equal value of other incoming links?