Marcia - 8:11 am on Apr 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Thread here at WebmasterWorld from 2005 on the Usage Statistics Patent [webmasterworld.com]

This is something else entirely, though usage stats could come into play with using phrase-based indexing for personalization.

Exactly the point. Over a certain percentage of identical anchor text on inbound links cannot be done with independent decisions. Not 80-90% of the people linking will use the same exact wording of "money keywords" in the anchor of links, it has to be contrived. Natural development would be indicated by a certain amount of variation. There's a great quote that's often applied to Hollywood or the legal profession: "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." Are we talking about faking natural development, or about natural development? ;)

Yessir, I believe that's exactly what some very sincere people are talking about. ;)

Hey,does anyone remember where in those phrased-based patents it talks about taxonomies being updated on the fly? Wonder how that would affect co-occurrence figures for phrases that could impact any given page kind of "on the fly", if there's that much flux - and how much in the way of unexplained ups and downs would occur as a result of it.

It can't get more "on the fly" than what some people are seeing and experiencing in the SERPs, it's like a yo-yo - up and down, down and up, up and down, down and up.

If you swung a shiny pocket watch on a chain back and forth, back and forth, like the SERPs move back and forth, you could hypnotize a cat.

[edited by: Marcia at 8:25 am (utc) on April 11, 2007]