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Google's PageRank explored
Google has never published the secret sauce behind how PageRank actually works, although it is believed that PageRank's overall importance in determining search engine rankings has dropped considerably in response to people attempting to game the algorithm. Regardless, it still holds a certain mystique, and if you're interested in learning a bit more about what is currently known about PageRank, Smashing Magazine has an article you'll want to read called Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? Since most of this is conjecture, take it with a grain of salt, but it appears some good work has gone into compiling this information.
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Jenny said 10:05AM on 6-12-2007
Google algorithm is hard to crack. PR is mainly calculated using link popularity, weight of backlinks etc
Jenny
http://www.spaml.com
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John said 10:48AM on 6-12-2007
I thought it was odd that a few weeks ago Yahoo.com "only" had a page rank of 9 (it's now a solid 10)...it's a useful tool though...helps you seperate the big sites from the well designed wanabees.
John
http://www.gigatribe.com
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Sunny said 8:42AM on 8-15-2007
The only use of PR I can think of
1) when you are selling a website
2) to determine how trustworthy the page is
Sunny
http://www.tradingsphere.com
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