tedster - 1:28 am on Feb 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

limoshawn, I think your observations are interesting and may point to some factors in the mysterious Sitelinks algorithm. Here are some related observations:

1. The HTML and Browsers forum here was originally extremely busy - so busy that we split off other forums for css, javascript, graphics and so on. In recent times, it's not been nearly as busy. So historical data may play a part.

2. Foo is often quite off-topic for the main themes of webmastering. If I didn't some some extremely weird Sitelinks on other domains, I might think that some semantic theming was in play. Maybe it is, but it's kind of broken?

I know from some of my client that the Sitelinks algo can make some funky choices. We've use WebmasterTools to veto more than a few of them - I'm very glad Google gives us that option.