zulufox - 12:53 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

I,m not seeing kwkwkwkwkwkwkw.com sites.. but I am seeing:

Search: Blue Widgets

Result 1: BlueWidgets.com

or

Results 1: Blue-Widgets.com

Thats sad since that means that in some keywords the guy who put up an affiliate link spamming site gets number 1 position ust because he registered the domain in 1996. Whereas a MAJOR authority site has dominated discussion of blue widgets gets page 4 because its name is Kozmo.com (no.. not really kozmo.com).

Do a search for "search engine" what I am saying becomes obvious:

Results 1: SearchEngineWatch.com
Results 2: Dogpile.com
Results 3: Altavista.com
Result 4: Google.com

Now... if there was EVER an authority search engine site out there... google is it. I,d understand if msn made sure they were above google.. but msn search isnt even on the first page.

The first result is AGAIN the one with the kw in its domain.

[edited by: zulufox at 12:59 pm (utc) on July 1, 2004]