Re: FN-FORUM: Pagerank

date posted 1st July 2007 14:53


Thanks

Looks like I am pretty unpopular

Oh well




John




On 1/7/07 2:52 pm, "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>> So what are the major factors determining pagerank??
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> "PageRank Explained
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> 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)
>
> http://www.google.com/technology/
> Google Technology