Re: Yahoo snippets

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote

Does anyone know from where Yahoo gets its snippets?

If you search Yahoo for "dance of death" (without quotes), result #5 is
www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm.

The result has the snippets "As I am, so thou shall be" and "attractively
illustrated website", but this text does *not* appear on the site. If
you search for the snippets they appear in a *review* of the page
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full3.php?id=10619.

The site owner is a pen pal of mine, and I know he doesn't use cloaking or
other
exotic tricks.

--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk


Eh? Dance of Death text is on the page and so is a link that goes to another

page with this text?

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:caiaum$1ek$1 (AT) newsg3 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

Eh? Dance of Death text is on the page and so is a link that goes to
another
page with this text?

I understand why it's #5 - but why does Google take the description

--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dksnippets from another page?




Because it's the nearest text match in the body.

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:53:27 +0200, "Martin Hagstrøm"
<mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote:

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:caidce$r5c$1 (AT) news7 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

Because it's the nearest text match in the body.

Are we talking about the same page?
The page http://www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm does not have "As I am, so
thou shall be" or "attractively
illustrated website" anywhere.

Nor any cloaking, you say.

BB

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:caidce$r5c$1 (AT) news7 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

Because it's the nearest text match in the body.

Are we talking about the same page?
The page http://www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm does not have "As I
am, so
thou shall be" or "attractively
illustrated website" anywhere.


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk

It picks up = ...of representations "of death" from the....

Not quite sure what all the other stuff is you keep mentioning

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:cajg4a$j7t$1 (AT) news6 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote in message
news:40cccd1b$0$272$edfadb0f (AT) dread16 (DOT) news.tele.dk...
"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:caidce$r5c$1 (AT) news7 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

Because it's the nearest text match in the body.

Are we talking about the same page?
The page http://www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm does not have
"As I
am, so
thou shall be" or "attractively
illustrated website" anywhere.


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk



It picks up = ...of representations "of death" from the....

Not quite sure what all the other stuff is you keep mentioning

When I search for dance of death, the fifth result looks like this in the
Yahoo
SERP:

As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]]
As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]] This attractively illustrated website provides a survey of
representations of death from the Middle Ages to ...
www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm - More pages from this site


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk



I can see that.

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme je
suis" translate into english. It must have something to do with the fact
that a french link is provided.

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> wrote

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote in message
news:40cd45e3$0$174$edfadb0f (AT) dread11 (DOT) news.tele.dk...
"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:cajg4a$j7t$1 (AT) news6 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote in message
news:40cccd1b$0$272$edfadb0f (AT) dread16 (DOT) news.tele.dk...
"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:caidce$r5c$1 (AT) news7 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk...

Because it's the nearest text match in the body.

Are we talking about the same page?
The page http://www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm does not have
"As I
am, so
thou shall be" or "attractively
illustrated website" anywhere.


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk



It picks up = ...of representations "of death" from the....

Not quite sure what all the other stuff is you keep mentioning

When I search for dance of death, the fifth result looks like this in
the
Yahoo
SERP:

As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]]
As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]] This attractively illustrated website provides a survey of
representations of death from the Middle Ages to ...
www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm - More pages from this site


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk



I can see that.

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme je
suis" translate into english. It must have something to do with the fact
that a french link is provided.

Didn't Yahoo used to get their results from Dmoz ? If so, could that be what
an Open Source Directory reviewer wrote ?

Rich

(PR0 but learning)

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> wrote

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote in message
news:40cd45e3$0$174$edfadb0f (AT) dread11 (DOT) news.tele.dk...

When I search for dance of death, the fifth result looks like this in the
Yahoo
SERP:

As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]]
As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]] This attractively illustrated website provides a survey of
representations of death from the Middle Ages to ...
www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm - More pages from this site


I can see that.

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme je
suis" translate into english.

As I am, so thou shalt be.

It must have something to do with the fact
that a french link is provided.

But "this attractively illustrated website" doesn't sound French to me
:-)
Anyway, the whole point of my thread was that I found it weird that
Yahoo uses *another* site in order to make its snippets.


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk

"Martin Hagstr?m" <mha (AT) altavista (DOT) net> wrote

"John Dingley" <john (AT) notrealurl (DOT) dot.com> wrote

"Martin Hagstrøm" <mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote in message
news:40cd45e3$0$174$edfadb0f (AT) dread11 (DOT) news.tele.dk...

When I search for dance of death, the fifth result looks like this in the
Yahoo
SERP:

As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]]
As I am, so thou shall be [[Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras
comme je
suis]] This attractively illustrated website provides a survey of
representations of death from the Middle Ages to ...
www.geocities.com/ppollefeys/main.htm - More pages from this site


I can see that.

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme je
suis" translate into english.

As I am, so thou shalt be.

It must have something to do with the fact
that a french link is provided.

But "this attractively illustrated website" doesn't sound French to me
:-)
Anyway, the whole point of my thread was that I found it weird that
Yahoo uses *another* site in order to make its snippets.


--
/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk

It seems to come from
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full3.php?id=10619.
It is not a straightforward link from there to the site in question,
but seems to be some kind of re-direct
If you note, the site is not in the Yahoo cache, but Yahoo Knows
the page exists because of the re-direct.
If this is happening, it opens up Yahoo to a lot of abuse.

John Dingley nous a schtroumphé :

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme
je suis" translate into english.

It does mean (if it means something...) : « As I was as you are, and as you
will be as I am ».

....
--
Ludovic LE MOAL

Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin nous a schtroumphé :

What exactly does "Tel que je fus comme tu es, et tel tu seras comme
je suis" translate into english.

It does mean (if it means something...) : « As I was as you are, and
as you will be as I am ».

I was as you are -- as you will be -- I am.

Or something like that, indeed (need to improve my english...)
--
Ludovic LE MOAL