steveb - 1:07 am on Apr 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

"One reason for such spikiness may be the addition of a large number of identical anchors from many documents. Another possibility may be the addition of deliberately different anchors from a lot of documents."

I'm glad to see that one spelled out. It may save some poor electrons from dying in those artificially-vary-your-anchor-text threads. Whether Google is any good at this or not, the point is the "spikiness" not either the identicalness or the non-identicalness.

Interesting document, the whole spectrum from sane to claptrap... heh, just like Google.