aeclark - 1:45 am on Jan 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

OptiRex;
In reply to your challenge as to what we would do to improve search engine results, I would like to suggest tweaking the way Google calculates PageRank (and the way the others calculate their equivelent link analysis).

My understanding is that (at least when PageRank first came into use) the PR of a page is passed on at a diminished value to those pages it links to. My understanding is that that value is .85 of the original, or 85%.

I would like Google to change the rate at which the PR is diminished according to the type of site. By that I mean that links from government and educational websites should be treated as more valuable than links from commercial websites.

That could be acheived, for example, by bumping up the rate at which PR is passed on from .gov or .edu websites (or their country-specific equivilents) to .9, or 90%), while decreasing the worth of links from .biz or .com (or the country-specific equivilents) sites to .8 or 80%, instead of having a uniform .85 or 85% for all sites.