GrantNZ - 10:42 pm on May 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

This update helped our site. We were #2 (previously a #1) and went back up to #1 again out of nearly 2,000,000. The former #1 developer had tried all sorts of tricks to raise their ranking and it's worked for quite a few months, but maybe G's got smarter now. Even things like the year of establishment/rego may be being taken into account now, who knows. We wait to see if all this will last.

I still do not like the way G leans towards country codes if selected under G's country domain names. As a techie I always start at google.com not my local google and I encourage others to do that too. Google.com is the ultimate benchmark for ranking imho.

Yahoo's looking quite good, were #1, but they apear not to update their index as fast as G, and searches for multiple words at the same time they're not as good... as G.

MSN.com is quite good however MSN countries auto lean towards their country codes - auto bias.