Powdork - 4:09 am on Oct 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

The diminishment of pagerank this time around means perhaps some of them aren't very good sites, doesn't matter, they have on topic content and are trying to be relevant... there are only so many words you can put in a title and these sites choose the two words.

Except that we're told to think like Joe Surfer. Joe Surfer doesn't care that the title is relevant. He wants to know about the waves in Florida (thats easy, IMHO they s*&k, except for the Sebastian area). Many of these sites don't fit the bill and therefore , to Joe Surfer, are poor results. She may figure its not the SE's fault, or she may go try somewhere else. IF Jane Surfer went to alltheweb and did the same search she would find far less satisfactory results. The aforementioned #10 is up to #5. MSN comes in ahead of atw , slightly behind Google.