Friday, July 22, 2005

google is crazy

Google filed a patent in March that is described as such:

A system identifies a document and obtains one or more types of history data associated with the document. The system may generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the one or more types of history data.

Bascically what this means is that they are going to start (or have started) looking at the lenghth of registration for domain names and make that information pertinent to the sites pageRank™®©. Why? Think about it... most search engine spam comes from domains that are only registered for a period of one year (companies can register for domains up to 10 years). This information is publicly available from the whois databases that exist, but who would have thought of using it for search engine ranks?

What is search engine spam? Have you ever done a search and come to a page that has a bunch of keywords in it with no real information? Perhaps just a bunch of links to sponsored pages from the same company to boost their own traffic? That would be it. Try googling for something like "cheap honda auto parts" and you will find a million of them.

Anyway, I just thuoght it was interesting. Just shows how cool google is, but also how worried I am for having only registred this domain for 2 years :-/

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