Mind Your P’s & R’s
June 6th, 2007 . by adminI’ll apologize in advance for beating this horse which is very much dead and gone, however:
After reading some highly visible misinformation about PageRank recently I would like to offer a few points of clarification on the Larry Page brainchild:
- PageRank is not an evaluation of content (In and of itself it does not consider anchors, body text, etc.).
- PageRank is a query-independent evaluation of the relative importance of a given document.
- PageRank is not “improved”, increased or affected in any way via manipulation of document content.
- PageRank data is not available via the Google toolbar.
- PageRank calculators are generally only useful in the context of intellectual exercises and simple architectural experimentation. The only way to accurately calculate PageRank is to implement a system which performs the iterations across Google’s entire document set. In other words to do what Google does.
- PageRank is not the most interesting (or important) feature of Google’s document retrieval and sorting algorithms.
For more info read: Google PageRank and Related Technologies (PDF)
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