Just don't get it

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Newbie here, so don't flame me too bad if I'm breaking any rules.Try this search in Google: march madnessSomeone PLEASE explain to me how the #5 ranked page out of 2,480,000 is this one:http://www.provide.net/~brewpaul/About to pull out what's left of my hair!!! It has a DMOZ listning with that keyprhaze in it!http://dmoz.org/Sports/Basketball/Fan_Pages/His PageRank is very high and if you look at his cached site, that term is only found on links pointing to his site. I am guessing he has dozens of sites pointing to him with the term "march madness" in the anchor text. These two mixed together can get you to great positioning.An example:Search for "miserable failure"You think the #1 site has that term in any part of the site?....no.Its all because of incoming links and high Pagerank.Thanks for your responses.OK, I understand that DMOZ listings can greatly affect rankings. However, the page has nothing to do with March Madness. No text. No meta. No links. NO NOTHING. The last time it did (according to archive.org) was Nov. of 1992. So is Google ignoring the irrelevance of the page when crawling it and just defaulting to the fact that its on DMOZ?You can always report to DMOZ that this page has nothing do to with March Madness and is password protected.You should be able to do this at http://www.resource-zone.com.Wow...This guy is doing this on only 4 links with march madness in every one of them.... No links in yahoo, msn, or alta vista. My guess is this is a product of being part of a larger domain http://www.provide.net has over 1500 pages in the google index.Whatever it is, it is the biggest hole in Google's algorithm I've seen. A shame and enough to get me more bitter than I already am.Any other thoughts?Hey, we should stat up a site..."Things that suck about Google"....Get everybody linking to it with the anchor text "Google"... See if we can out-do them on their own search Grogger wrote:Johan007,If it's not the case, how do you explain that ranking?cos of DMOZ...However what I am saying is that if another site eg: yours was to link to it via:2 PR 7 links with the link text of your search term2 PR 4 links with the link text of your search termthen it should* equal it.*some smaller PR links may be hidden from the back links and they may or may not have an effect on ranking.You can start by adding a small signature link to in forums (though they have know to be suddenly devalued from sites like phpbb so don