kris - 8:14 pm on Oct 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

My post was similar to austtr's before it was edited. By substituting "word1 word2 word3" for the actual phrases searched we lose site of the irrelvancy involved. I respect the moderator, but by 'generalizing' the phrases, at least in this case, we lose the point of the argument. I made no reference to a commercial site, but was illustrating that keyword proximity is very important when searching, and the new algo seems, for the most part, to have devalued it's importance.

At the risk of being edited again,

big screen tv is very different than tv on the big screen

6 of the top 12 results for big screen tv (no quotes) have nothing to do with "big screen tvs"

Thanks,
Kris

[edited by: kris at 9:57 pm (utc) on Oct. 8, 2002]