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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Suman Kanuganti wrote:
> Has anyone tried typing "search engine" in google? I was suprised
> looking at the results it gave, it listed google in the sixth position
> and the first was Altavista, others lycos, dogpile etc. Why wouldn't it
> list google on top?
>From altavista.com home page:
<meta name="keywords" content="search, searches, search engine
Google.com home page contains no keywords and the term 'engine' does not
appear on their home page. So altavista gives a closer match to your
search term.
Google is just doing it's job, displaying pages in order according to the
match of their content with your search string.
Mike
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