Robert_Charlton - 5:21 am on Jun 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

There's definitely been an algo tweak... I'd posted a while back that on searches where a common phrase like "San Francisco" is a modifier, they were grouping "San Francisco" as a common phrase... which makes sense... but that grouping was giving far different results from San Francisco not grouped, as if they were giving a lot of extra weight to the common modifying phrase.

They seem to have adjusted this. The grouped and ungrouped results are still different, but the modifying phrase has been dialed down. Google is still having problems with this, I think because of link relevancy.

I'm also seeing some changes on rankings of some interior pages that I can't explain... which I guess is the way they want it. ;)