Has Google sold out?

[Butuz]

Put it this way.

When it gets to the stage where you search for "donkey willy's" and it comes up with "ebay - the best place to buy donkey wily's" - you know google have sold out.

Butuz

[mart_haj86]

you do realise everyone in the forum is now going to search for donkeys willys?

[5lab]

Put it this way.

When it gets to the stage where you search for "donkey willy's" and it comes up with "ebay - the best place to buy donkey wily's" - you know google have sold out.

Butuz

its just advertising. 10,000 servers don't pay for themselves.

[Mike Fishcake]

Put it this way.

When it gets to the stage where you search for "donkey willy's" and it comes up with "ebay - the best place to buy donkey wily's" - you know google have sold out.

Butuz

That's slightly different though - because they're not part of the main google listings - they're easily discernible adverts.

Plus, what if someone wants to buy a Donkey's widger off ebay anyway?

[Kumagoro]

I thought I had read that google doesnt use meta data for rankings, possibly ignoring it
altogether?

Before google was around I use to use infoseek as it worked slightly differently than all
the others. You could search inside the results again and again, I always found that I
could get what I was after much easier.

Then they changed it and it was cack, like all the others.