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I've come across some nice .info domains I'd like to register but will continue looking if they are not as favourably viewed as .com, .net or .org.
Thanks
Google does not rank, index, or spider domains, Google deals with individual pages. If a TLD is not widely supported, like eg. special character domains, or odd extensions like, say, .museum then Googlebot might find it difficult to retrieve those documents, and because of this not index them. If, on the other hand, the TLD is widely supported, so the page can be retrieved, then Gbot will spider it. So much for spidering.
>> a higher ranking to domains that have the more established .com, .net, or .org
Ranking, in turn, depends a great deal on incoming links these days. Get more and better links and you will rank better. Create more relevant pages and you might rank better next time they change something. Do both and you do good. Enough blabla...
Test:
As a test i ran the Google search "site info" and i found that #7 of about 116,000,000 was a .info domain. The search "allinurl:info" does not show a major proportion of them ranking high, but that might be due to the recency of this TLD - there are simply not a lot of them around (relative to com, org, net..) and they have not been around for long enough to accumulate a lot of backlinks.
So: I think they're perfectly fine. Nothing seems alarming from these two quick tests. They're spidered, indexed and ranked just like anything else it seems.
/claus
A half truth! Their webmap / start point for PR (there has to be one) is based upon universities!
No. However, the nature of the PR beast is that it will favor .edu sites. Sites with lots of inbound links get the greatest PR. The nature of academia is such that the way you convince others you know what you are writing about is by citing lots of other authorities who have published evidence that supports your claim. Look at academic journals for this. PageRank in fact was originally conceived with indexing academic documents in mind. Someone then realized how useful it would be for a search engine.
This means the sites that will naturally exchange the most links with other sites are .edu sites. Which will give them the highest PR, and the advantages that go along with that. The other end of the spectrum is commercial sites. Sending people to the competetion is seen as bad for business, and thus the least linking.
