cws3di - 6:02 am on Oct 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

Tedster - I believe you had it absolutely right in your first post - it is all in the ANCHOR text from backlinks.

It seems logical to me that the sites above G have a lot more backlinks to them with that exact search term. When people link to G, they use the term "Google" not the term "Search Engine" in their links.

i.e. this is pretty conclusive evidence IMHO that Anchor Text pulls more weight than what is becoming "old-fashioned" green-bar Page Rank.