There is a train of thought that a higher ranking is given to site which are found through links rather that submitted. The definitive proof i suppose would have to come from someone at Google (not much chance of that)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Milne [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 May 2002 15:31
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> Subject: Re: Search engines used in UK Universities
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> Surely if you WANT Google to index your site you submit its url so it
> can come find it?
>
> Paul
>
> At 3:25 pm +0100 15/5/02, Kat Street wrote:
> >On Wed, 15 May 2002, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> >
> >| Indeed it will, and if that new page is not linked from any other
> >| page, then the search engine will never find it in all eternity...
> >| Which is, I think, the very point that Kat was making.
> >|
> >| Philip Taylor, RHBNC
> >|
> >
> >Yes, possibly not very clearly :-) What I meant was you can
> have a whole
> >site up and even though there are links between pages within
> that site, if
> >the search engine doesn't find a path to that site from
> somewhere else, it
> >will never be indexed.
> >
> >Kat
>
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