Google to rank sites by "quality"

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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...mg18624975.900

Scary and yet logical at the same time. Anyone who believes the integrity of big news corporations has been compromised should be a bit worried.

[kermitology]

I was under the impression that Google ranked pages by the number of pages that link to it..

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Originally posted by kermitology@May 4 2005, 05:04 PM
I was under the impression that Google ranked pages by the number of pages that link to it..

This is an article about a new ranking they are looking to institute.

[MarchHare]

I think this only affects Google News, not the main search.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

It is just Google news - and really this isn't very different from how they rank pages now.

For normal search results they call it 'relevance' instead of quality, but it sounds like the factors are pretty much the same.

When google comes out with features like News they're typically not fleshed out for months. They gather the info first, and then look at how to imporve the delivery of it.

Google Local is the same. If you type in florist Calgary it'll show you local listings for florists - but its starts with Google's version of the centre of Calgary and moves out to rank them. In a few months to a year, that list will be ranked according to some algorithm as well.