[165124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trivium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Tue Aug 20 01:37:52 2013
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:35:20 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <EtWS1m00F1Una3W01tWTmS>
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On 8/20/2013 12:29 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> I'm curious; do people really think that the difference in material
> indexed between Google, Yahoo/Bing, and others is really that
> big? I don't mean the heuristics and algorithms used to return
> the results in a particularly useful order; I mean the sheer raw
> set of indexed pages. I don't debate that Google found a
> particularly useful page ranking system; but I question the
> notion that the loss of Google was akin to the loss of your
> root directory.
I don't think the other engines are nearly as badly poisoned by the SEO
crap.
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