++ [ originally posted by Martin
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Possibly. But if I understood your explanation correctly, PageRank is centered around page exposure to and from other pages (or is it site wise? in any case..). But that's still ranking based only on links. It says nothing about the quality that page has nor is it an estimate of how many people actually followed the links that point to it. Some pages can be seen by many but linked to by few, for instance. Back to quality, this of course is very difficult to establish, Google sets out to show you the pages that you will find most useful, a lofty goal.
Bottom line, every formula you could come up with would give a relative error of at least 300% IMO.
To and from other sites actually. I guess the word "Page" is confusing. "Page" actually referes to
Lawrence Page, google's founder.
The algorithm is actually a bit more complex, clever, and usefull than you may think. You make a good point in that the number of links does not mean that people actually follow all those links, but the basis that a website is "well-linked" is good enough to show that it contains usefull content. Why would many people link to a site that is useless? Don't forget that the ranks of all the sites pointing to a specific site effect the rank of that specific site.
Saying that a site may be seen by many but linked by few (and thus you calim it may have a low rank) is a good point, but it doesn't hold water when you think about how the internet, a site's content, and the alrgorithm works. The people who accessed that page had to find that page somehow. If it isn't by another site, then it must be by directly entering the address. If so, then that's where the constant in ithe algorithm takes higher affect. If the page has many outgoing links, then that would surely mean that it's not a "source," but merely a "referer," and thus shouldn't be ranked that highly.
You may say that their goal is lofty, and to some extent i agree, because i know there are sites with certain content that i've come across, but i haven't been able to find using google. However, google's massive success suggests that they are comming close enough to their goal.
It's quite nice, isn't it?
Very much, but it can be A LOT better.
I'll leave this as an open suggestion. Call it a public(forum members acutally) project under your (or the mods') supervisions.
I'm sure there are loads of members who have some good suggestions (I have) to improve the juventuz site, the time to help (I did, not anymore though), and the will to go on maintaning it.
I don't know the latest developments on the sale of this place, but i'm sure some content and/or aesthetic improvements will help push the sale.
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