Lots of Links... No Ranks!
Steve's article regarding the fireproof safe homenetworking back up solution stirred things up quite a bit (make sure to check out our iPod shuffle contest for the best alternative solution). However, it would make sense that with all this hype our page rank would increase (or at least gain some tranction) but that is yet to be the case. Which led me to investigate why this is the case. I subsequently stumbled upon a great article that helps explain a lot of what is going on when it comes to determining Google page rank. Check it out at:webworkshop . Be sure to keep us posted if you know of any other tidbits when it comes to page ranks.
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Another interesting discussion on this on Robert Scoble's web site yesterday: http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/31/how-are-people-finding-blogs-its-not-blog-search-engines/ including stats on how people are finding out about various weblogs.
Posted by: Aaron | November 1, 2005 10:36 AM
From my understanding, none of the major search engines handle weblog searching well; the pages change too often to fit many of their heuristics. That's one of the reasons there has been the evolution of 'blog search engines Google BlogSearch, Feedster, Technorati, IceRocket, and the like - they are much more fit to handle 'blog searching, usually by directly monitoring the respective RSS/Atom feeds most weblogs produce, instead of page/link analysis that most web search engines do.
The alternative approach is the one taken by Memeorandum, which is using a link-rank system for 'blogs to decide which stories are most talked-about and interesting at the current time.
(For a larger list of search engines, see Google's Open Directory)
Posted by: Aaron | October 30, 2005 07:22 PM