To know how to write web pages to do well in Google, it can be helpful to know a bit about Google itself. And there's a nice little introductory article on the official Google Blog, called Introduction to Google Search Quality, which puts a human face on what they do. Obviously it doesn't reveal any trade secrets, but it reinforces the fact that there are people behind all this technology. As well as a staggering number of PCs.
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