Definitive Google Guide?

[Lee Hodgson]

I want to learn in-depth about the Google search engine, how it works, how to get my pages to the top etc.

What resources, apart from this forum obviously, should I be looking at?

[lennymos123]

have you tryed http://searchenginewatch.com/

[Lee Hodgson]

yes - in the dim and distant past.

is there nothing google dedicated on the web? since google dominates the search engine world, I would have thought a site dedicated to providing information about google would be a real winner.

Do google themselves provide any information (white papers etc.) about the workings of their engine?

[goldrake75]

look here http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
you'll have got a lot of answers, but also a lot of new question!

in this document the google foundiers write:
There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. The full version is available on the web and the conference CD-ROM.

the long version on the web has been removed. Anybody has got it?

[Lee Hodgson]

That's a great reference. A real insight into what makes Google tick. Thanks a lot.

[Archbob]

Download the pagerank tool and do some research yourself, thats the best way. You'll find that ranking high on google depends on 2 or 3 things.

[aspen]

http://www.promotionbase.com/article/762

[Ravedesigns]

Great article there

look here http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Thanks for sharing that!

Steve

[goldrake75]

u R welcome!

[dcallan]

http://www.akamarketing.com/google-ranking-tips.html
This is a good article, check it out.