jeremy_goodrich - 2:20 am on Mar 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

Um, hm. But -> the advantage of having an algorithm is that there is cohesion and order to the results pages.

As yet, I have seen none.

And spam however you view it, does very, very well. Yesterday's cloaking with Alltheweb -> is today's XML feed based CPC program.

So they even have sanctioned 'spam' however you want to view it.

How does that 'help' me as a user...? :)

Oh, and last I checked, their market share was smaller than Google's....that does NOT lead me to believe that such stuff is 'best kept secret'.

Quite the opposite -> if they did drop a research paper, then they would have more SEO people trying to crack the algo, and those who succeded, because they *knew* how to crack it, would be bragging about their consistant success in optimization.