JennyC wrote:
I was discussing how google works with a friend...... how do they search
nowadays?
It used to be the amount of links one had to ones site, but I have the feeling
that they might have changed their 'formula'

I think it's a bit of a secret, but AFAIK that's still true, with some
whitelist/blacklist mods. I think that's how some of the 'I'm feeling
lucky' gags are engineereed - people able to dump hundreds of pages with
links up for indexing (or one page with hundreds of DNS aliases)