Posted
09 November 2002 @ 11 PM

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Pigs can fly

Literally! So can simple pages be the top hits on google. You may want to try out a small search on google. Try searching for flypig. Take a look at the first hit - Flypig's Musings. Click and lo behold! ... How did that happen? Did you expect that? Flypig (a.k.a Michael Kohli) was teaching me the other day, the power of simplicity, how one can be the first page on a google search without a fraction of the effort that we all do to stay in the good books of Google. P.S. Another secret, Flypig hasn't updated his page for the last six months.

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Posted by
Sumit Dhar

11 November 2002 @ 5 PM

Hey Nils, Just check out http://www.rootshell.be/~dhar/flypig.html A small experiment to find out why MKs page is at the top on google... :))

Posted by
Sumit Dhar

11 November 2002 @ 5 PM

Hey Nils, Just check out http://www.rootshell.be/~dhar/flypig.html A small experiment to find out why MKs page is at the top on google... :))

Posted by
Nilesh

11 November 2002 @ 12 PM

Flypig is not an uncommon word. That's why all the surprise. You have a software company at flypig.com. You get flypig toys., pigs with wings on them . There is a lot of other stuff as well....

Posted by
FlyPig

11 November 2002 @ 5 PM

Trust me I have been there for some time at No.1. Its all Googles fault... and since Yahoo uses Google...

Posted by
Dhar

10 November 2002 @ 1 PM

Hi Nils, I am slightly surprised by this. One possible reason might be that flypig is not that common a term. Also though the web maybe a visual medium search engines work on the text medium. A flashy site != high google rank. Typically high ranked sites would usually be text based, with lot of cross linkages and links from other sites. But seriously, I am at a loss to explain why flypig returns Michael's page first. I am gonna try and experiment and see if his page still remains first after say around 2 months. :)) Love, Dhar