Kirby - 8:00 pm on Jan 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

>Google could randomly boot out 50% of the index, and John Q wouldn't know, notice, or care.

If John Q is shopping, he'll never notice. There are so many pages that could justifiably be page 1 anyway, but only room for 10 - a ridiculously low number in relation to the number of results returned for the majority of most commerce searches.

If John Q is looking for non-com info, then John Q would probably notice.

[edited by: Kirby at 8:02 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2004]