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RE: Fw: [Full-Disclosure] [TOTALLY OT] Google fun
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- Subject: RE: Fw: [Full-Disclosure] [TOTALLY OT] Google fun
- From: "Rikard Gothäll" <rikard@nada.kth.se>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:44:42 +0100
> One of the ways Google determines ranking is by how many
> links exist to a given site or object. If you convince a
> number of people to provide a link from the word "bastards"
> pointing to www.sco.com, Google assumes it's a popular site
> for that topic and ranks it accordingly.
Actually those sites linking must also have a high rank in order to raise the
rank of the page they point to. A cluster of pages linking to eachother and one
more site will yield a very low rank unless some high ranking site links into
the cluster.
The google design is quite clever.
/rikard
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