cornwall - 2:06 pm on Nov 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

I ran a few tests and got some excellent results in terms of relevance to what I asked for. I was most impressed.... until I got the same hotel affiliate page 37 times, one after the other, starting at #1.

This is an interesting point. All Search Engines have struggled with the "hotel problem".

How do they spot affiliate sites? Few "genuine" links exist within the hotel business, in fact a hotel booking site with links is probably "suspect"

Google has played a lot with their algorithm vis a vis hotels, and of late have made strides in eliminating the "same hotel affiliate page 37 times". A search in Google for say, hotels in a specific US city or state have varied wildly this year, and there were times when one was getting the same spam multiple times.

Can you sticky me the search you did on Fast that gave you the 37 sites as SERPs. I have tried to duplicate it on looking up your profile and asumed you were searching by city, state or countrywide Australia, but could not get the run of 37.