Mar 07 2008
Hands down, Google is smart!
Why do I say the above. Well, it is because of Google’s pagerank algorithm. This article is perhaps the next chapter within my personal study of Google’s pagerank algorithm and how it manifests itself nowadays. If you care to read the previous article, you should then read the article about Google doing pageranks manually.
In that article I have covered a few issues that were very popular back then, especially the one with the reporting tool for webmasters, which could easily report their competition as of having paid posts, links etc, on their websites.
Now, I am really convinced that Google’s algorithm for pageranks is very smart. Why? Well, since that article, my pagerank has dropped to 3, many pages have N/A for pagerank. The most interesting fact is that one small post of mine, which is by far, not the most searched topic nowadays, got a pr 2. It has no backlinks, no nothing. Just a few words, which I didn’t even spend time to choose them wisely. In fact, that post is a brief message to let everyone know about my open source mathematical basis converter and calculator, which I had released back then on math.bogdanpop.info .
Soon after I launched it, it came upon top on Google SERPs, but now, it has disappeared, while it’s pagerank has jumped to pr 2. This is probably because that app has become quite popular. I get tons of hits from EDU networks, so I assume it is used for calculus in colleges, universities and alike.
So, why did Google push that page high up in the SERPs, why is it gone now, and why does it now have a pr 2 out of nothing? My guess would be that Google somehow knows that app is useful, so the pagerank assigned to it is something else than what you get with every new page on a site, which is normally zero. ( The math converter / calculator article. )
