This page was posted on Nov. 29, 2006.  Three days later, on Dec. 2,
Google's rankings improved dramatically.   Maybe that's because
it was mentioned on two prominent blogs.   After ten days the
story was mere history, and Google trashed our rankings again.
Is this any way to run a so-called "objective" search engine?

Google hates Wikipedia-Watch
( almost as much as it loves Wikipedia )

Rankings as of November 29, 2006 for this site,
which went online in October, 2005. Additional
Google rankings are from Dec. 2 and Dec.12.

Search engine rank	Google Nov 29	Yahoo	Ask	MSN	Clusty	Google Dec 2	Google Dec 12
Search for: bomis halloween
wikipedia-watch.org/	300	20	null	9	44	2	160
Search for: "catchy snippets"
wikipedia-watch.org/	106	16	4	9	9	5	142
Search for: slimvirgin criminal
wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html OR wikipedia-watch.org/hive2.html	164	5	6	4	1	2	203
Search for: "sarah mcewan"
wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html OR wikipedia-watch.org/hive2.html	115	13	10	17	19	36	120
Search for: casino weinberger
wikipedia-watch.org/vandals.html	631	31	null	8	31	6	623
Search for: "kitten-eating cyborg"
wikipedia-watch.org/vandals.html	22	11	null	4	2	4	23
Search for: freenode assimilation
wikipedia-watch.org/findchat.html	220	29	21	1	2	2	227
Search for: "esteemed encyclopedia"
wikipedia-watch.org/findchat.html	32	14	13	7	2	5	25
Search for: seigenthaler riot
wikipedia-watch.org/usatoday.html	283	34	null	4	7	2	285
Search for: "vandalize the article"
wikipedia-watch.org/usatoday.html	22	20	null	3	4	6	18
Search for: defamation decency
wikipedia-watch.org/wikitort.html	463	61	null	49	123	138	142
Search for: "sue wikipedia"
wikipedia-watch.org/wikitort.html	65	4	13	3	4	5	73
Search for: britannica plagiarism
wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html	807	69	null	19	23	7	816
Search for: "arbcom over"
wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html	25	3	2	3	1	?	26
Search engine rank	Google Nov 29	Yahoo	Ask	MSN	Clusty	Google Dec 2	Google Dec 12
Averages	233	24	—	14	19	17	206

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