stargeek - 8:00 am on Jun 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

When I mentioned word cooccurance I meant that I am interested in the statistical threshold that will result in two words being tagged as similar.

In other words, how many times does a pair of words have to occur together on the web for google to deem the pair "related". From merely anctedotal observations it appears that level is relativly low and is dependant on the number of times the pair occurs in relation to the number of times the seperate words occur without eachother.

The result of a concrete knowledge of how google determines weather or not two words are related is the ability to manipulate "related word" recognization, adding a whole new level to google SEO.