> >> Would you please provide a search term(s) that produces a Google 
> >> result that illustrates your point.
> >>
> It's been particularly annoying that you USED to be able to 
> enter a part number of a relatively obscure chip and have the 
> manufacture's spec sheet show up high in the rankings.  Now, 
> you wind up with a whole bunch of data sheet subscription 
> services that want money before they'll feed up the 
> datasheet, and a bunch of sales sites,  good portion of which 
> don't actually HAVE the datasheet or the part you requested 
> anyway.  For instance, try "tmp47p443"...
> 
> I don't think this is google being bought, I think it's just 
> sites that have learned how to manipulate the search engines.
> 
> BillW


Some sites serve up different content depending on who's visiting. 

At lot of it is no big deal, media sites lock out non-US visitors, some
switch languages based on IP and then there are changes made depending on
your browser.

Naturally, it's not hard to spot the Google spider, and give it access to an
abridged PDF (ya don't want the lot ending up in the cache!).  AKA 'doorway'
pages.  Google takes a dim view of this, and banishes those it catches.  I'm
not sure how it catches them though, a second spider disguised as a browser?

Flash sites are worse, they never show up.  Then again, they don't deserve
to.

Tony

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