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To: BlueNgold
Geico has no standing in that they themselves use Meta-Tags to elevate their 'match' on search engines like Google

This is a sidebar, but Google's technology is unaffected by Meta tags, because its rankings are based on how many other sites contain links to yours, not on a word count from your HTML. There are ways to artificially inflate the rankings, of course, but Meta tags wouldn't do it.

62 posted on 12/16/2004 6:47:26 AM PST by TChris (Most people's capability for inference is severely overestimated)
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To: TChris

Google does use tags and embedded language to define content. Their ranking may be based on more discreet information, but a link from 'netquote' doesn't in and of itself define Geico as Geico the Auto Insurer.


66 posted on 12/16/2004 8:59:49 AM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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