When searching on the internet, often the results include many webpages which are comprised of unrelated words all jumbled together. However, they do *not* look like an orchestrated list of words like you would use as "keywords" when trying to drive searches to a page, but instead include pronouns and all sorts of apparently "useless" stuff. As an example ... ...knowledge hospital experiencing workday active administration's price does october serve improperly claims president. cold three good closest largest best price volume offering "we've allowing store ron emergency secretary nature ... [bold]Can anyone shed some light on how and why this stuff is generated??[/bold] Thanx!
use quotes like "cooking" that will narrow ye search down, also it will limit ye searche's that how i do it..to directly to find want i want. cheers
I'm wondering if you have used a search engine called "vivisimo.com" ; I almost always use google but if I'm looking for very specific things for the office (usually department of labor related), I'll use vivisimo because it clusters which can come in very handy.
ireland: thanx for the response ... but I do not have any problem, per se, searching the internet. My question is out of curiosity. gerry1 ... Thanx for your response. It did lead me to find a reasonably satisfactory answer. I suspected that the pages are generated by a server somewhere, on-the-fly, to drive you to a concocted page ... even though often the pages don't actually seem to be selling anything *specifically* .... note that even though the pages are lots of jibberish and word-salad, they do have at least *some* hypertext. I called the Vivisimo company and their customer service rep was incredibly nice and incredibly helpful. After her explanation about Vivisimo's products I posed the above question to her. Her explanation was that (as I kind of suspected) those pages are in fact a type of spam that plagues search engines. And that even though the text seems to be unfocused (depending on the page), the fact that *some* of the text is "clickable" garners enough click-thru's from the large numbers of people driven to the site, to be valuable to the "spammer". [bold]A bit of bonus information from my conversation ...[/bold] Vivisimo has a sister website called [bold]CLUSTY.COM[/bold] which is like the public search feature at the Vivisimo site but is more robust and clusters Image results, News results etc .... very cool! Thanx all!
Thank You for that Sina. I knew there was some sort of work being done but I didn't know about "Clusty" ...Gerry
Personally I'm not an expert however when someone types out a webpage it has 3 seperate parts to it head, title and body. When you search via a search engine this search's keywords in all the title sections of pages. Therefore there is a lot of people that do and will type in keywords such as 'PS2' 'XBOX' etc etc as this in turn creates more hits for their site which can be very profitable or costly depending on sponsorships, monthly rental, server cost's etc etc. Also you can bear in mind that these 'key words' can also be changed to the same colour as the background so that in theory you are getting redirected to something totally irrelivant. This is called spamming! Don't quote me on this as this is only [bold]my[/bold] theory.
