For YEARS doing a query for Search Engines or Search Engine The first page was always occupied by Google and Yahoo...
It is telling about Google's new Algos that
(Dopile Altavista Metacrawler Lycos HotBot – all above Google)
While "Search Engine" would certainly apply to Google and would reflect the term used rather frequently in its back link.
So, Google's new algos are possibly using a complex back link keyword filter that is not weighing certain links.
Unfortunately, all this obsession with eliminating SEO effects and Spam, exemplifies how their relevancy is declining
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=search+engine&num=100
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