claus - 11:18 am on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

This query: [google.com...]

...reveals 20,300 such pages. If you look at a few of them you will see that they do not return any of these server headers:

404 Page not found
410 Gone
301 Permanently moved
302 Temporarily moved

...ie. they are real html pages. As they also have incoming links (some even from dmoz), and even content on them, they do qualify technically for being in the index. A bot will not "understand" the text of such a page, it will only read it, and because of this such a page will be ranked according to the same ranking criteria as any other page. These would, imho, be good examples of pages that i would use that form for, as a bot would never be able to tell the difference but a human would.

/claus