Clark - 8:47 am on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

Very nice work Claus.

I don't think this would be very tough for google to do at all on the fly. If I remember correctly the entire database is in RAM. The processing power to get the initial result set is probably a great deal more intensive than re-sorting on this basis for a smaller result set.

Think about it this way, instead of going through millions(billions) of records to get a result of 1000, G will only need to sort through 1000 to recalculate PR for those 1000 resulting pages. I could be wrong but I think it's a piece of cake.

Nick, what this means for the SEO is that you have to pay for new domains and new hosts and host at a different place for each domain or find a way to get lots of different IP ranges for the same company or maybe a trick for your own server...though G may have some way to detect if it comes from the same datacenter. Then do heavy crosslinks ON THE SAME TOPIC w/o getting caught of course. Those that try to SEO from one or two ded. server are ded. in the water.

This raises the stakes big time. SEO just got much much tougher. It will benefit the serious pros big time because they will probably do what it takes... but it takes certain aspects of SEO out of the hands of the average webmaster.

It would have been even more effective if Claus hadn't found the patent...but Thank God he did so we don't have to waste time SEOing the wrong way :)

The only thing left to do is develop Link Campaigns within your theme.