[LINK] RFI: Backtracking Links

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:46 PM 29/01/2011, rene wrote:
>The one thing that is abundantly clear to me is that some 5 or so years ago
>using Google's advanced 'links to' option did seem to produce a probably
>reasonably accurate set of pages. Some 1-2 years ago, it became apparent to
>me that it no longer did - because I knew more about what pages linked to
>some of my pages than Google was capable of showing. That's still the case,
>and now blekko does produce a list that shows not only what I already know
>about, but also quite a lot more - and that on sampling, do in fact contain
>a link to the relevant page.

That's fascinating considering one of the weightings Google always (I 
think) said they used in their algorithm was reference link. Someone 
said on link today (sorry, can't recall who - Stil?) that Google had 
recently changed their algorithm. Makes me wonder 'changed from what' 
if this has been going on for awhile.

Jan



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