Come on MisterT give a valid reason. This spam replies has got to be cut down. If your not going to give a valid reply then don't reply.
@Crucify:
Ya Google takes a lot more into account than just backlinks. Currently they take over 200 different things into account but it's secret to exactly what and how much weight each carries. It's know for certain though that the below have an influence although some are rather small.
They include (in no order): backlinks, page title, page load time, server location, amount of downtime the site has in it's history, internal links and where they go to, domain age, position of links on the page, headings (<h1> <h2> <h3> etc), amount of text on the page, do the heading keywords appear in the page text, do the title keywords appear in the page text, amount of images on the page, url, tld, keywords found in first 200 words in page, keywords found near footer, keywords found in general, keywords in alt tags, keywords in image links, image names, valid code, and lots lots more.
They update the Google Algorithm almost every three days making minor tweaks so it's constantly improving.
Most of the above is know through research and that part of the Google Algorythm was leaked a few years ago. It was the part on servers and load time so having a reliable, fast host near to your market is important.
I've read a few books on Google and how the Algorithm work but I know very little about how advanced Bing is. I'm presuming it doesn't take into account as much as Google and isn't as advanced yet and this is one of the reasons the results vary so much between them along with the number of pages they've indexed.
