neuron - 4:30 pm on Mar 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

This scares me. not that I'm a bit on the fancy side or anything, but just how much freaking raw statistical data will they have access to?

have googlebot and will travel. sure, they get around by spidering, and they have toolbar data from at least half the webmasters in the business, but just how much raw webstat usage data have they had their hands on before?

How much of the market share does Urchin have? They are going to see a whole 'nother ballgame here! The picture they get by the numbers is going to be astounding.

What by God can the sheer history and live data collections of such stats mean to a search engine bent on deliverying the best results for its users?

It may take a year or more for google to implement ideas gained from inspecting this plethora of data, but how would it effect the SERPs? This could be rolled out in some future update and we'll all be scrathing our heads for years to come...not to mention the effect it could have on adwords/sense.