__/ [Borek] on Saturday 17 September 2005 11:09 \__
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:25:22 +0200, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
>
> Interesting: look at the "googlebombing" link:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&amp;amp;amp;...
>
> What are these amps for? Or where are they from, if it is a better
> question?
>
> Best,
> Borek
I believe that & is simply an ampersand ("&", interesting origins too <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand >, which I once read about and sent
over to a friend).
Do you reckon this might be a tracking trick? They already appear to be
doing some tracking when searching for various terms. There are odd
re-directions going on in the results page, which you might notice if you
copy locations (links) from a SERP. I reckon that they don't /always/ have
these re-directions because with 100 million searches per day (or whatever
the true number is), they can get an enormous statistical sample from just
a fraction of the total query volume.
Just my opinion...
Roy
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