[Sigia-l] "Best Bets" or "Accidental Thesaurus" Examples?

[Listera]

"Richard Wiggins" wrote:
> ... I want to make very clear that we are talking about
> a relative handful of search terms whose meaning is obvious.

Obvious to YOU. MS thought news = MSN; CNET news.com thought otherwise.
 
> Again, keep in mind that ALL hit lists from general purpose Web search
> engines are arbitrary.

Since you're not interested in what I'm saying and keep missing this point,
I'll do it one last time and be done with it: "ALL hit lists from general
purpose Web search engines are arbitrary" but they are *uniformly* so. The
engine doesn't *arbitrarily* single out 5, 500 or 867 terms for special
treatment or changing of its search algorithm, whether they are
top-requests, paid-for, specials-of-the-week, etc. When they do, they run
the high risk of guidance. This may be good/efficient. Or it may be abused.
If you don't think so, fine.

Best,

Ziya