spinnercee - 10:57 pm on Dec 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

In this update some things have changed... for the first time (in the last month or so), I have noticed that the ol' GoogleBot has been reading my external javascript -- which basically contains a document.write() statement... Now, I don't know how much this would change ranking and the like, but, in the past I have used the *script* tag to hide stuff that I don't want to be indexed or seen by straight-html bots and browsers. I can see how rankings can change dramatically if other webmasters used the tag to include "no-no" type, out-of context, language that would previously get you banned from the index.(?)

I don't know either way, but I wouldn't try to find hotels in Paris, France now on any search engine. As a webmaster, I have been getting more hits from "other" engines, but that may just be the holiday rush, since overall the hits from all s-engines has increased. As an "advanced" user, I too have noticed the high ranking of out of context results, and I have also noticed that some use external JavaScript to add keywords, but I just pass them up, It's obvious to a human --- I just wish the algo could at least come close... :)