Google Using Whois Data For Keyword Matching?, Search Engine Roundtable (May 12)
This seems far-out and would certainly be annoying. There is some evidence that Google uses WHOIS data on a site for ranking and for spam detection.
“There are many ways Google could use the data, from checking who owns which web sites, checking site age, checking transfer of ownership of domains, and possibly for some sort of keyword relevancy factor.”
But what if the Whois registration data is the only match on a keyword – will Google show that as a search result?