Marcia - 1:35 am on Jan 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

On common search words that can be two words or compound, if we type in key phrase we're asked if we mean keyphrase. MSN isn't that polite, if you type in key phrase they give you keyphrase, asking if you wanted the two words even though that's originally what you typed in.

google.de results are so drastically different, looking at the overall picture. Those *big* sites and directories don't seem to be a problem where I've looked.

My own keyphrases that I've checked so so far look like they'd be expected to, pretty much like before Austin with a Jan. 27 date on them. Regular Google looks like an additional component was factored in that wiped some of them out.

With a couple of older more established sites I looked at there's only a difference of ten spots down or less on the new compared to .de; it's a couple of new ones that got slaughtered and what those have in common is that they don't have any inbound links at all yet from topically related independent sites.

I'm not saying it's got any significance beyond those, it just happens to be a very obvious flaw with them.