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Rankings analysis always starts with keywords of interest, even though Google can be used to identify keywords by relation. Referrer logs seeding outside source
by noibl 16y ago
Rankings analysis always starts with keywords of interest, even though Google can be used to identify keywords by relation. Referrer logs seeding outside sources with gibberish keywords that literally nobody is interested in? That's a stretch.
- gojomo 16y agoI'm not saying this is specifically how the gibberish Google probes landed in Bing; I'm saying this is a way that, even for popular queries, Google's ranking judgements and unique results are going to slowly diffuse out over time, and be echoed elsewhere, even without URL-trail mining (which shortcuts/supercharges the process).
- noibl 16y agoFair enough. I agree that naive indexers will make lots of crude and meaningless associations. I don't think Bing falls into that category though.