Comments on: OT – How Does Google Work?

By: J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly

J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:33:44 +0000

JLP – set yourself up with Google sitemaps. It will help you see what your top searches are, etc. For example, checking it just now reveals that Get Rich Slowly averages #4 for “healthiest foods”, #3 for “absurdly cool” (!!!), #10 for “phil town” and “wealthy barber”, etc. Check it out.

By: Herb

Herb — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:45:19 +0000

Google outlines the basics on their algorithm on their site. As the first post said, Google uses site linking to help determine the importance of a site (ie. how high it ranks on a search). The more sites that link to yours, the higher the rank you get, and it also counts links from highly ranked sites as “more important” than links from low ranked sites. I’ve also read that they penalize you for hidden links and other trickery; with the idea being that one person could own hundreds of non-related domains, and on each put a hidden link to all of the others to attempt to improve their rankings.

By: raising4boys.com

raising4boys.com — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:32:48 +0000

The more important question is why you were searching for ‘failure’ in connection with your own site…

By: BD

BD — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:01:25 +0000

Google works by figuring out what words people use to link to your website. George W. Bush actually shows up for “miserable failure” as well. Another fun one: hit “I’m feeling lucky” after searching for “French military victories”.

By: calvin

calvin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:33:10 +0000

This is a few years old news it was caused by the way Google handles links. A lot of blogs started linking to George W. Bush using the words miserable Failure, thus propelling him tothe top of the charts. It’s a result of a decent understanding of how google works.