Page Rank - Great for Searching the Internet but not Single Sites

A kuro5hin article.

[mallu]

[kuro5hin.org...]

Any comments?

[PatrickDeese]

The whole basis of the criticism is that searching "corwin site:bikini.com" turns up the homepage (which features model Lola Corwin this month) and in second place the page with her biography etc, therefore Google doesn't search sites well for information.

However the search "lola corwin site:bikini.com" turns up the biography first.

So..... I am not too impressed with the writer's logic.

[deejay]

Honest impression.... overly simplistic view.

At first it seems a lack of understanding of the complexity of the algorythm... but by the end I'm thinking it's deliberate oversimplification in order to push their own barrow.

*shrug*

[mcavic]

Corwin site:www.bikini.com brought the home page up first and her personal page second. Clearly, you really wanted Lola's home page to be first, not the site's home page. PageRank has failed you.

Umm, false. The search wouldn't return any page that didn't have a mention of 'Corwin'. If the home page comes up first, it's because it's better in terms of keyword occurrences or density, right?

[JayC]

The search wouldn't return any page that didn't have a mention of 'Corwin'. If the home page comes up first, it's because it's better in terms of keyword occurrences or density, right?

Well, factored in there could be a higher PageRank, which is his point. But as was pointed out before, it's only one example. It's not the case, as the article states, that the index page "always" will be first.

For that matter, the article implies that the PageRank of the index page is always higher, but there's not necessarily true either. PR doesn't favor the index page; link structures usually do.

[mrguy]

--These thoughts evolved as I was trying to write a search result ranking system for a search engine I have developed called the Yider. It is a free product that is designed for Windows servers. I had to have some kind of ranking system, so I decided to use the word count and position as my page rank. It works like this: --

That should tell the whole story. He is bashing Google to drum up support for his engine.

A couple other off comments he made clearly in my mind shows he is extremely jealous of what Sergey and Larry have accomplished!

[BGumble]

Judging from the random deep hits I've seen in referral logs, people don't search for the last name of celebrities.
Who searches for "Spears" or "Aguilera"? NO ONE. People search for "Brittany Spears," "Christina Aguilera," and "Lola Corwin." Poor logic for the basis of an article.