> Correct. I think they want to avoid automated systems that tweak a > webpage, see how placement is affected, tweak it again, etc. That would take forever (you'd have to wait for a second visit from their crawler). I think they want to avoid added-value websites that don't mention the Google brand -- it would be like redistributing Python but claiming you wrote it yourself. > Also, if you notice > their links, they redirect through Google itself: > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.python.org/&e=921 > > (I don't think they used to do this, but I'm not certain.) Me too. > I'm sure they use click frequency as a component of their relevance > algorithm. A program running through those links would adversely > affect their scoring algorithm. Indeed. And I don't want to affect their scoring algorithm -- it's their most valuable feature! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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