More bitching about Google, this time from a more philosophical perspective. The rather dumb spiders (e.g. AltaVista, InfoSeek, anything powered by Inktomi), paired with simple mathematical weighting algorithms, produce much more democratic results. They treat all sites equally; all sites get a shot at inclusion in pertinant search results.
Whereas Google’s results exclude unpopular sites; the tired, the poor, the downtrodden. Google’s algorithm only favors often linked-to sites – the cheerleaders and football players of the web. You would think the overarching nerd mentality of the ‘Net would naturally be opposed to this.