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Message: [QUOTE="JSH, post: 3616846"] I've debated with myself for years, as in yes, literally years, what is the significance of the high ranking. The ease with which you dismiss it simply shows bias. I'm actually not sure what it means. I can tell you that I've had that #1 for 3 years. And that I've had it consistently on Google but on Yahoo! it has gone away at times and come back. There is also a "class viewer" for World of Warcraft which has at times looked like it might take over, but never made it. And your dismissal of Microsoft having their own "class viewer" for .NET which can't compete with mine for Java is just kind of weird. Oh yeah, there's some other commercial program called "class viewer" for something or other that can't win either. Then again, hit counts to my page are very low. Maybe only Google and Yahoo! can really explain the ranking. But I've had weirder ones. Like for a long time I had: superman plot idea Typing that into Google without quotes would give a webpage on a blog of mine that had, yup, a plot idea for a new Superman movie. Now THAT high ranking REALLY bugged me. It just made no sense to me. It's gone now, thankfully, as I figured out a way to kill it. It's open source. There is no way to know exactly how popular it is just from download statistics, but I will say that all the stats I have don't show a very popular program! So it's a mystery to me. The program has official downloads of about 2,500 per year, which is nothing. I can't remove it from SourceForge, and even asking that indicates you're not into open source, or if you are, you know nothing about SourceForge. Or maybe I could delete it from there, I guess maybe I could, but... Well, I'm not going to delete it from SourceForge. I've been considering these issues for YEARS now, as I seem to be able to get a lot of things rated very highly in search engines. Oh, here's one for you. Do a search in Google on the following: prime number compression You might also do a search on prime counting function where you will see my posts on this newsgroup have managed to stay in the top 10. They were kind of taking it over but have since slid down. It's a dynamic process that is fascinating to watch though I debate with myself the meaning of it. The weirdest by far is the one you continually glide past which is "definition of mathematical proof". Google that one in quotes. Oh yeah, as I pointed out to you, replying to me does not diminish my impact. I don't know why I run into people who think that replying to me a lot is a strategy. The BEST strategy is to not reply at all. Let me put up a thread that has no replies and then see what happens. James Harris [/QUOTE]

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