Re: [lojban] LogFest 2001: How are we doing?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> > I'm sort of excited to notice that the Wiki has worked its way up to the
> > #3 hit on Google for Lojban. 
> 
> Is ranking determined by clicks to the page or external links to the
> page or by all links to the page?

None of the above.  The exact details are proprietary, but in general
they try to find "authorities" (pages which have many external links to them)
and "hubs" (pages which contain many external links) and weight pages by their
closeness (in link terms) to hubs and authorities.

Clicks, at all events, cannot be counted by search engines, since
typical sites do not expose their access logs.

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