[Tfug] Google wizard?

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Adrian,

On 12/9/2012 11:41 PM, Adrian wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2012 23:09, Bexley Hall wrote:
>>> You may still get some (via pages that have no PCIe but
>>> the link to those that do), but that should generally eliminate it.
>>
>> Ah!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  why is this?
>
> Remember the foundation on what Google was based... Unlike other search
> engines of the day, Google didn;t just look at what a particular webpage had
> in the content (or meta descriptions), but it looked at what other pages
> pointed towards. So, for example, if a bunch of different pages (on different
> websites) all discussed the PCI bus and all linked to the
> webpage "http://example.com/pci_operation.htm", then the example.com webpage
> may rank highly, even if its content itself (or the example.com website)
> didn;t seem otherwise remarkable to a simple content search.

Ah, OK.  So, it is possible that a page that turns up as a result
might NOT even have the desired search term(s) present on the page.
Or, might have terms that I had deliberately excluded -- if the
referencing page did NOT include those excluded terms (?)

--don