In one word, no. Every page at Google is ranked by itself, not as part of a collection of multiple pages from a single site. It may be that the spidering of a site for inclusion into the index involves heuristics that depend in part on the number of … [Continue reading]
I’ve heard that Google likes sites with lots of pages. Is this true?
December 9, 2004 by Leave a Comment
An Upside Down Value Proposition
November 12, 2004 by Leave a Comment
Have you bought a technical book lately? I do that rather a lot, and the price of books is just incredible! Software by contrast is a product that continues to decline in selling price (for a given function) at a very noticeable rate year-on-year. … [Continue reading]
(non)Martial Arts
November 7, 2004 by Leave a Comment
In the beginning, one can reasonably presume that the martial arts were intended as a means to train for martial purposes, aka, battle, but today, such a position is generally not founded. This is not a "bad thing". The role the arts play … [Continue reading]
Plastic, Silicon, and NanoTubes
November 6, 2004 by Leave a Comment
In the movie The Graduate, we were told that the future belonged to plastics, which indeed, have revolutionized much of packaging and product exterior design. The invention of the silicon semiconductor gate changed pretty near everything not changed … [Continue reading]
Natural Horse-man-ship…
November 5, 2004 by Leave a Comment
...is apparently far from natural, because both man and horse do not, on average, do very well at it. A better term might be "Enlightened Horsemanship", but that sounds kinda' religious, which really is not necessary. Instead, we really … [Continue reading]
Brave New World
November 4, 2004 by Leave a Comment
Quoting MSNBC's Countdown, the 1936 Socialist Party platform is now, 60 years later, the law of the land. Hmmm, progress? Not hardly. Take a look at the 2000 and (brand new) 2004 red/blue presidential election map and notice: the country is … [Continue reading]
Can I create VARYING text links to my index page to make it rank for multiple searches?
December 21, 2003 by Leave a Comment
That would be diluting, not strengthening. Strong reputation is where all the links say the same thing. If they say different things, it weakens the original reputation in return for, equally weak, reputation on the additional terms. But there … [Continue reading]