In , on 11/02/2003
at 05:40 PM, Reid Goldsborough said:

According to all I've heard and read, the quantity and quality of sites
that link to your site (page rank, as you said) are weighed most by Google
in prioritizing its search results. Less important, but s

Another thing. Well, I use yahoo and don't normally google for anything but
newsgroups ...

Have you ever notice how Yahoo's links are all routed back to their own
servers, which then redirect you to the selected link? They're counting how
many times people have actually clicked on a link through them.

Nick