Ignoramus760 wrote:

> On 2 May 2005 15:09:14 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>> Ignoramus760 wrote:
>>
>>> This is a very clear study proving that directory names are of
>>> supreme importance.
>>
>> Note that there is no such thing as a directory in an URI. Google
>> doesn't know if bar in foo/bar/widgets.html is a directory or not. So
>> basically what you say is that words in URIs are important. What's
>> new?
>
> Well, two things. Google parses URI's and it probably knows (as we all
> do) that '/' is a directory separator. Second, this case shows that
> words in the URI are very important (not just important). They place a
> pretty meaningless page before higher PR pages.

In general, / is a directory separator but not always. Google will just
be stripping the / in the URI and considering each part between the
slashes to be a word.

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