I just happened to click on the Similar Pages link in a Google Search and couldn't for the life of me understand the results.
You get the same set of results if you do a Google search for related:www.mydomain.com
Try it on one of your sites. Can anyone explain the logic, if any, in what you see? Or is it only the peculiarity of the sites I was checking.
Barry Welford
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Do You Understand The Google "related:" Search?
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, Sep 10 2003 08:19 AM
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Posted 10 September 2003 - 08:19 AM
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Posted 10 September 2003 - 10:01 AM
Most of the results I see on a related: search are DMOZ/Google directory listings that are either in the same category as the site referenced or related via some keywords to the site referenced.
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Posted 10 September 2003 - 07:48 PM
I found this link on google http://www.google.co...es.html#related
This seems to explain it.
It looks like that if you find a website with an interesting topic and you would like to research it further. the Similar Pages link finds more sites with the same topic.
But I guess you already worked this out. I'm just leading up to an idea... and this idea is; can the results shown from Similar Pages give away a small part of how googles algorithm works in regards to how it judges how one website has relevent content to another?
This seems to explain it.
It looks like that if you find a website with an interesting topic and you would like to research it further. the Similar Pages link finds more sites with the same topic.
But I guess you already worked this out. I'm just leading up to an idea... and this idea is; can the results shown from Similar Pages give away a small part of how googles algorithm works in regards to how it judges how one website has relevent content to another?
Edited by air-dog, 10 September 2003 - 08:15 PM.
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