#1 and not updated since 1997

Probably never had the stress of SE rankings

[garry]

Just goes to show how an early listing in the life of the www can do wonders for your ranking.

Site has alot of copy (about 5 pages worth in just one "home Page". In fact this is the only page and it is just a personal page in 4 folders deep.

Lots of links, only two are to existing sites, the other 20 are broken dead servers.

No description or keywords (not required back then?)

#1 in Google, Yahoo for the main keyword since Adam was a boy.

Has alot of <th> (assume this was hand coded in the dark ages?)

To make it worse the owner does not even play a didgeridoo!

Ahhh you have to laugh at their luck.

[agerhart]

You may run into this from time to time. For our main keyword, there is a listing that also hasn't been updated in a long, long time, and it may move from #1 to #3, but it rarely moves beyond this point.

Grandfather listings.

[excell]

If you are talking about what I think you are talking about then it is not "grandfather" There is no such thing as that on google (it's fresh every morning :))

A long established website might have good connections and be well intergrated on the web and that is good for them.

[sem4u]

A good example is a famous Lycos website that sits on top of a very well known search engine related phrase :)

(Okay - it's #2 this month!)

[SlyGuy]

Grandfather listings.

They just sit around for a long, long time and every so often provide good stories and musings about the way things used to be.

Just like my grandfather.

I love coming across grandfather listings.