Dynamoo - 7:18 pm on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

I had to scratch my head on this one.. which was "how the heck does Google know an editor's seniority"?

Of course it's simple, a senior editor like a meta will tend to be named on more categories (at the bottom) and higher ranking categories (e.g. Society, Computing, Business etc).

Anyway, if an someone is the named editor for hundreds of thousands of ODP entries and has edited tens of thousands of those entries themselves, on the world's most significant web directory, does that make them (and their profile pages) in some way important? Ummm well yeah :)