From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sun Mar 17 10:17:29 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 17 Mar 2002 18:17:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 25257 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2002 18:17:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Mar 2002 18:17:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2002 18:17:28 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10466; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:43:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203171743.MAA10466@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:42:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] LogFest 2001: How are we doing? To: a.rosta@ntlworld.com (And Rosta) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:42:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Mar 17, 2002 04:48:00 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan 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. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_