Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] internet egalitarianism (was "Need totalk...")

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> A few months ago someone expressed concern that even the Internet can
> have its dark corners. If a search returns thousands (or even hundreds)
> of hits to a relatively specific query, the lowest-ranked results
> usually go unseen. How many people look beyond the 15th page on Google?


Sure, but the point is this:  The stuff on page 17 isn't *necessarily*
different from the stuff on page 1 in terms of the wealth, power, etc. of
the author.  The order of the results from a Google search depends
primarily on how closely the page content matches your search terms.  If
you've got 15 pages of Google output, then your search isn't very
specific.  I often do searches that return no more than 5 or so records
(not pages of records).  Some of these records are very obscure.  Highly-
specific searches shine light into the dark corners of the web!  ;-)

Mike
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