11.06.06
Google stealth tactics
UD and Google: conservatives have some clout, but what about the little guy?
There are other tricks beside de-indexing, like deep-sixing material that is in fact indexed, but which doesn’t appear where it is supposed to. I strongly suspect this for the history-and-evolution.com site, which is listed on the third or fourth page if you type in ‘eonic effect’. This site has dozens of references to ‘eonic effect’ but is listed after many sites that have maybe one use of the term ‘eonic effect’, including an old site from geocities, now off the web, but which is still in Google’s memory banks! That can’t be chance.
However, please note that noone can tamper with the raw vocabulary in your indexed material, no matter what rank. If you discuss history, someone will find your page based on the raw vocubulary/concepts/ of that page, other things being equal. Thus my site has managed to attract a considerable stealth traffic from history students that Google can’t control ( I won’t give particulars), short of deleting you from the Google system, something they can’t really do (all this is of course part guesswork).
Paranoia? Compare Yahoo and Google on ‘eonic effect’ (disregarding ‘darwiniana citations which are anonymous under ‘nemo’) and you will have to conclude that either Google cheats or is a third rate search engine. The Yahoo system listings are far superior.