dcheney - 5:41 pm on Sep 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

ska_demon,

I agree with some of your points but not others.

In regards to the index pages - I see a large number of websites where the index page has little to no content. I don't know if that's an issue in the sites you are wondering about. For my sites, most folks aren't looking for my front page - they are looking for some specific info on one of the detail pages. I do make it easy for them to get to the index page if they want to - but I'd rather the SE sent them directly to the info they are seeking.

I'm not worried about whether my page is before others - I'm worried about its seleection of a page from my site where ever I does rank it. It never seems to pick the page(s) that are most appropriate for a given search term from within my site. It'll usually pick some page - but its one that doesn't make sense. For example, if I search for "Dark Green Widgets" instead of returning the full page dedicated to the specs and history of "Dark Green Widgets" it'll return a page on things made in Atlantis which happens to have "Dark Green Widgets" on the list.