Hello folks. So let me tell you my opinion. First of all "It's all about setting the bar high to get better search engine results." - this is not correct.
ONLY better PR doesn't mean better stats. PR is just one of the ranking factors.
"I actually remember searching Google about a year and a half ago and only having to go 2 pages deep to find what I was looking for... now I have to try several different combinations of words and phrases..." - indeed
many people have said that lately... from statistics Yahoo is the search engine that shows the most accurate results... lots of unrelated pages have started to appear in google tops lately...
"Content is king" - indeed... but google also LOVES links... so a king that is not loved isn't too good
"Everyone says PR doesn't matter as much anymore and that's bullshit... You can make yourself a page that has real information about some obscure search term and sites with high PR will rank higher than you if they just have the words on the page." - again PR IS important but it's not the only thing that matters.
"They did not have 8 billion pages indexed a year and a half ago" - indeed Baddog you are correct.
"I think google has been slacking off big time. I ran a backlinks check for my SE listings on one site & google counts less than 100, but msn counted over 2300 ? MSN seems to be the only se that counted every single back link" - google shows way less links then Yahoo or MSN
All in one Google isn't as accurate as it should. But also MSN and Yahoo don't have the number of clicks per day Google has. As it's always in the life.. one thing must balance another.. and one bad thing is balanced with a good one... I wish I could tell you more but I don't have the time right now and also I want to let you find the misteries of this thing called SEO. For what I've seen untill now in the adult world SEO is not part of the hard competition.. but it's starting... but in the other sites... sometimes it's hell on earth
... to be honest SEO is the future... so now in the end if you wish to know more about SEO you can contact me at razvan at blackbookescorts.com or on ICQ - 216429032 and we can talk more about it
Good luck to everyone improoving your stats