Re: FN-FORUM: Pagerank

date posted 1st July 2007 14:34

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> So what are the major factors determining pagerank??

"PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by
page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the
sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also
analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are
themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages
"important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on
pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your
query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching
techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your
search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a
page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the
content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match
for your query."

in other words it's an indicator of your popularity.

;o)

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