Brinrank

Why is pagerank called pagerank

[yetanotheruser]

Is pagerank called so because of what it does or who thought it up? ;)

Also.. has this always been live? (never seen it before) [hci.stanford.edu...]

Sorry.. my fever is getting to me. back to bed...

[aspdesigner]

Yes, that's a VERY old link. If you want to get an idea of just how old, check out the personal web site/directory that link was inside of! -

[hci.stanford.edu...]

:)

[GoogleGuy]

I can almost see it now:

Larry: "I call dibs."
Sergey: "Doh!"

GoogleGuy, who is feeling very Simpsons tonight..

[getvisibleuk]

Did I read that right "The number of visits to a page is it's page rank" Is it me or does that change everything?

GetVisibleUK

[kaz]

That's what it says, but that doesn't mean that is what it is. Read on to -

PageRank versus Usage Data

... there they outline using PageRank VS Usage Data. They outline privacy concerns, obscure items rarely accessed, and that usage is partly driven by poor search engines.

The last item is an interesting comparison.

PageRank can change very fast
> one link on Yahoo

Citations persist

Traffic can change very fast
> one mention on the radio