how search engines work

This week we're talking about search engines, pageranks, spam, bots, spiders, and stop words. Here are some links:

: :BBC NEWS | Technology | How spammers are targeting blogs
: :Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania!
: :The Anatomy of a Search Engine
: :Google Toolbar
: :PageRank for sale
: :What are stop words?
: :More on stop words
: :BananaSlug: add a random word to your search query
: :CompletePlanet: search the deep web
: :The Internet Archive Wayback Machine: "search the Web as it was"
: :PageRank is Dead (by Jeremy Zawodny)
: :Pew Internet & American Life Project: Search Engine Users
Boing Boing: Desperate Ken Lay paying search-engines to return links to his "version" of Enron
Liz Lawley: sponsored blog post Archives