Not necessarily true. You can pay Google to have your webpage turn up higher on the search result list. Although, I think this particular result is at the top due to corporate culture at Google. I seem to remember the CEO making some statement about that page some time ago, when some other company was complaining about how Google gives priority to some pages over others. So, yes you can pay Google to make your page the page that always get returned by a certain search when hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button. On a more personal note, I get the distinguished honor of being able to tell people to type in my name "Brian Densmore" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" and they will find a page about me. Granted it will likely be a link to the KCLUG archives or some page on another site ripped from the KCLUG archives. Yes, people have been copying KCLUG pages and archiving them elsewhere on the web. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) Sent: Tue 3/23/2004 2:25 PM To: Richard A. Franklin; kclug@kclug.org Cc: Subject: RE: Google Fun The reason this works is because hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button takes you right to the first result returned by the search. So they didn't buy anything, just got their site listed as first on the search. Josh -----Original Message----- From: owner-kclug On Behalf Of Richard A. Franklin Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:32 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: OT: Google Fun Warning: This IS political ... 1) Go to [ ]www.Google.com 2) Type in weapons of mass destruction (DON'T hit return) 3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, NOT the "Google search" 4) Read the "error message" carefully - the WHOLE page. (Never expected this from a search engine ... didn't know you could buy the results of a "feeling lucky" selection).