More Reason To Rank Highly In Google

A new feature of Google, when used in FireFox, gives an even bigger advantage (and extracts a bit of a toll) from top ranking pages.

Google now pre-fetches 'top results' (they don't say how many) so that these pages load faster when users click them. This means users are going to have another incentive to click top results instead of venturing further down the list. It also means a lot of bandwidth is going to be sucked up (and paid for) because of Google caching.

I wonder how analytics programs reflect these cache hits? Will we think we got visitors, or a bot visit, or what? Anybody know?

Posted by Craig Danuloff at March 31, 2005 11:40 AM