Google toolbar for ranking webs

Google toolbar info for make stats of traffic?

[macasopo]

Do you think google make stats with the information colected by the google toolbar and use it to rank better the web pages with more traffic? :o

[edited by: NFFC at 12:46 am (utc) on Sep. 2, 2003]
[edit reason] No sigs, thanks. [/edit]

[kevinpate]

Welcome to Webmasterworld.

I don't know whether the correct answer to your Q is yea or nay, but you do need to come back and edit out your url from the sig line, as it is against the TOS of the forums here.

[annej]

I don't think they are doing it yet but you have to wonder if it's in the plans especially with their recent automatic update of the tool bar.

[macasopo]

Hello Kevinpate,
I canīt understand what means "TOS". I donīt undertand this.

And saying more about the topic, there are in the toolbar two icons with a happy and sad faces. This is another think that may be innfluence to the position.

[Mohamed_E]

TOS means Terms of Usage and Conditions of Service [webmasterworld.com]. Item #13 says:

13. Please don't drop promotional urls (we do not allow sig file urls).

.

[annej]

I've wondered about the happy and sad faces too though that could be manipulated by spammers. They could either do a mass effort to give their sites a lot of smileys or send frowns for competing sites. Someone is probably working on a program to automate that right now.

OTOH keeping track of where people visit would be harder to cheat though I'm sure someone would find a way. <sigh>

[netcommr]

If you were Google, would you?

[PatrickDeese]

The "vote" buttons make your computer go "beep" - if you have your speakers turned on.

The easiest way to prove that the vote buttons are just a "macguffin" is that if you select that option, no "advanced features" warning turns on, unlike the button for the button for the "web directory" right next to it.

If it doesn't send page info, it can't be registering a vote, can it?