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our 'holding' company is at nr. 1 and one of our clients nr. 3 with a page that is not relevant (frame set up page and in other business/topic than the keywords) but these pages were copy-pasted from our site, without modifying the source code (for that our html-editor will be penalized!).
our own homepage - which i suggest would come up first - isn't even showing within the first 1.000 result, while it's listed in DMOZ and Google and has exactly the same code before the body-tag.
Could it be the flash-movie (it's the only content on the page) that makes this happen.
i know flash is not good for optimization but this seems to be from a period before knewing at least some basics to influence ranking.
when i went to the end of the results and clicked the 'repeat the search with the omitted results included' link i did get our page on #1
life's full of surprises ...and so is google!