Re: What Can We do About AdaHome.com

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

"Samuel Tardieu" <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote in message
news:87n0eghaga.fsf@inf.enst.fr...
> >>>>> "Anders" == Anders Wirzenius <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>
writes:
>
> Anders> A third direction could be to actuallu visit the adapower
site
> Anders> a lot of times since (correct me if I have wrong
information)
> Anders> at least some of the search engines put frequently visited
> Anders> sites higher up in their hit list.
>
> I think you do have wrong information. How could any search engine
> know what sites are frequently visited (unless you install a spyware
> on your machine)?
>

You are right. The total number of visits is not possible to fetch
unless you analyse the internet traffic.
You may be partly wrong. A search engine may always be able to count
how many visits there are through its own site.

Back to the subject (no favouring of a particular search engine): I
took my time to visit www.google.com and found something about site
ranking:

<cite>
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote,
by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume
of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that
casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important"
weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
</cite)

That should indicate that the more links there are converted from
adahome to adapower, the higher rank adapower gets.

Anders