walkman - 4:34 pm on Jan 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

"I'm no expert, but my guess is that Google engineers have given the thought that ranking shouldn't be affected for a short while if a website goes down for whatever reasons."

that makes sense. Databases go down, and also, if your site is not responding they are not going to remove it right away. Unless it's the Adobe Acrobat reader page with a zillion links with "Acrobat Reader" as anchor, on page content matters. Whether it matters as much as it once did, its a different story.