kris - 6:53 pm on Oct 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

keyword proximity seems to be a casulty of this update

I couldn't agree more. We find high PR sites with one, or two of the phrases but not together. I am not affiliated in any way with word1 word2 word3, it just helps illustrate the piont.

Search "word1 word2 word3" (no quotes)
1 = word1 otherword on the otherword word2
2 = a word3 otherword about the word2 otherword
4 = word1 day otherword otherword ... word3 and word2 are nowhere on the page
9 = (word2 in domain): word1 otherword ... word1 otherword ... little otherword word3 ... otherword word2 otherword
10 = "word3" on the "word1 word2"
12 = word1 otherword word2 of otherword ... alt.word3

In all of these examples "word1 word2 word3" appears nowhere together on the page. What do we see here?

Very high PR sites trump ... even though the page has 0 relevancy

[edited by: ciml at 7:42 pm (utc) on Oct. 8, 2002]
[edit reason] Examples generalised. [/edit]