At that rate it hardly seems to be enough reason to end their addiction to a “Free” account that actually makes billions selling their names to anyone willing to pay, in otherwords: spammers, pornographers, pedophiles, scammers, hackers, thieves, stalkers, voyeurs, malicious code writers, virus authors, kidnappers, underground rings, drug dealers, etc.   I mean really, would the “Honest” person want to buy that list if they knew they had a 1 in 70,000 chance.  Then again, would a dishonest person really care if one of the 70,000 is all need.  Turns out that 1 in 70,000 does in fact generate billions of hits.  As the 411 spammer (see previous link, entitled, “I will eat your dollars”) affirmed, if a person responds to any of his junk mail he has a 70% chance of getting his money.  And when he can make hundreds or even thousands off of just one click, that’s worth it to him. The 411 spammer also admits to using 500 fake hotmail IDs everyday.

    The concern I have with the Google issue is that are they blacklisting  great family oriented sites that are boring, in favour of porn rich site that are exciting.  By porn rich sites, I mean, site that use pop-ups and porn ads to increase the number of clicks they get on their sites - along with a host of other tricks - to encourage a higher search engine rating.

    Google search recipe is a guarded secret that is now being challenged by other sites - including sites that are design to provide a safe place for kids and sites from people and businesses that are too poor to afford tricking out their site for the purpose of generating hits.

    We typed in “iC SuperCOMPUTERS” into Apple Safari’s built-in Google Search box.  Out of 139,000 entries, iC SuperCOMPUTERS came up with 7 out of the top 10 entries (the first page).  Five of the top 10 were related to iC SuperCOMPUTERS.  They included some links to our own webpages and links to other sites that mention iC SuperCOMPUTERS on their own websites.

    I didn’t see a problem with that.  It appears to be fair use, considering we don’t purchase any search engine tricks.  We simply have a counter.  In fact, right now, we don’t have a counter for our links pages, but that’s another story.

    What about the last entry?  Turns out that out of the 139,000 entries Google would only show us 762 of them, which accounted for 77 pages (762 divided by 10).  I know that’s 76.2 pages, well, the last two entries are on page 77.  

    The last two entries are:

 

    This is not bad.  Especially considering that Mac’s PowerPC ships are the same PowerPC chips made by IBM for use in their supercomputers.   Even though it’s indirectly related to us, it’s still relative, free of tricks and not pornographic.

    But, that’s only a search using a specific search.  The question is how does the ranking work with general searches?  Or, how would you search for us?  And what would those results yield?  That is something we’ll have to watch for as the trial progresses.  But, we do keep in mind that we haven’t actually registered our site with search engines - instead the search engine spiders have found us.  For that, it’s still impressive to us that people do find us.  At some point we should register, every business is encouraged to do so - but it does serve as a tribute to Google’s ability to find relevant searches - even with a site that doesn’t use tricks and hasn’t even registered.

    NOTE:  I’ll have to confirm the registration part, to rule out the possibility that someone else has registered our name with Google on their own.  If that is the case, a big thank-you.  But, as far as I know, our listing in Google was solely based on Google’s search engine’s ability to work as advertised.

    Ditto for Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo and others where iC SuperCOMPUTERS is also listed.