Feb
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In MSN I noticed someone ranking #6 for my name even though they have no page copy or anchor text which has my name in it...although their site is co cited many times in articles next to my name...for sending me what I believe to be an absolutely bogus lawsuit.
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Huh. Fascinating.
Have you seen Matt's post about Google and Traffic Power? Thought you'd find it of interest.
Yes Sue... and I already posted about it :)
Very interesting, it looks like MSN is establishing a new kind of "site flavor".
Maybe it's time to bypass the lawyers. How about a campaign to SEO it away with some white hat?
I might be inclined to chalk up this phenomenon to something akin to latent semantic indexing. If a certain term is paired often enough with another term, a search engine may "learn" to associate the two terms.
Look at the results from searching for Aaron Wall on Microsoft's Search Results Clustering experiment (on the sandbox.msn.com site):
http://rwsm.directtaps.net/p5/clustermain.aspx?query=aaron%20wall
Here you see that one of the clusters is "Traffic Power." And if you expand the cluster you see all manner of interesting tidbits about how the search engine thinks it relates to what we originally searched for (i.e., Aaron Wall).
According to this, you are also thematically related to Matt Cutts and Lee Odden. But you should be pleased to also note that you are linked to the term "White Hat." If you search for "Traffic Power" (including quotes) you see that they cluster for "Black Hat." *grin*
Interesting stuff to say the least. I think we will see more of this on the major SE's in the next couple of years. Hopefully, someone will present a better interface than the MSN sandbox implementation. :)
EGM
great post EGM :)
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