steveb - 9:50 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

"Hopefully no one will complain if we make it better for Internet users and a little worse for SEO’s :)"

That would be great, because I even had dreams about what keyword domains I was ordering.

msndude, one problem here clearly is the tiny index. You've been crawling like mad, and that should truly be an awesome asset for you. A fairly complete, fresh database is a necessity to compete. But one explanation for why these results are so godawful can be found in you not having anywhere close to adequate judgement of linking.

Totally worthless one or two page banner farms rank better than established domains with thosands of pages because the banner farm has the keyword in the domain, while the established site gets no benefit from 99% of its pages because they aren't in the index... no links to see, no content to weigh in a global sense, no way to judge authoritative internal links, and on and on.

This is like skimming the surface... some cream rises, but so does the scum.