On 12/23/05, todd...@gmail.com <todd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Aside from those which they find to be "spongeworthy", I have no doubt but what some which are "better" (by some indiscriminate factor) and someone could yell, hey! look at #5011, or "come here and see this one!" just as it could "nah. Another clone."

I can't presume to guess their methodologies - unless it were explained by Google, by someone who has the info from Google, etc. So I could be talking out of at least two orifices at the same time. And I'm not being paid for accuracy[1] (You get what you pay for). I'd liken it to getting something posted on Slashdot. Suppose a story pops up somewhere (likely everywhere) because there's a place in pi where one hundred consecutive digits have the same value (for giggles, let's say zeroes). How many articles do you think will be submitted to Slashdot for posting? And how many will be published? (notwithstanding the problems of some double-posting of late) What I'm trying to say from this is: why post what everyone else is doing? They're going to ignore 1'000 identical or nearly the same and only one of those will be selected.

Again, it's free advice and you can do as you please, but if someone spends their time making everything pretty but someone else makes things straightforward enough that the intent is there and can be cleaned up along the way, which will attract (Google, or for that matter, anyone else's ideas). They're your ideas and you can do with them that you want to. But if you want to get them published, you may find yourself looking at a different tack.

[1] even for securing a grant from SBIR and keeping a share if it's granted (there are companies which do this as healthy income), but