psoares - 4:40 pm on Dec 17, 2002 (gmt 0)

i do believe FAST is *very* close to Google at this point, a matter of 3 to 6 months.

my opinion is FAST is about close to where Google was july this year in algorithm terms, when Google gave (in my opinion) too much weight to anchor text and domain keyword stuffing. the first often led to googlebombing and with cheap domains the second led to spammy results all over.

then google starting giving more value to singleworded www host/domains to fight subdomain spamming, this around august/september 2002.

IMHO FAST needs to fight the subdomain spam, award less value to internal linking and keep using link popularity as a strong measure of a page's relevance, which is obviously what caused their huge improvement this year.