Monday, August 27, 2007

If you type "miserable failure" into Google, your first or second result will be George Bush’s official biography. How is this possible? (Note: the ph

1 comment:

Matt and Brandon said...

One factor Google uses to rank sites is popularity. It counts the number of links from sites all around the Web. For example, if a large number of sites has a specific keyword somewhere on their Web site along with a link to a particular site, Google counts the number of times the keyword appears along with the number of links to a particular site. The higher number of links to a site, the higher Google will rank that site on a list of results. There are several additional factors as well, including but not limited to the title of the site, the site’s meta information and the actual content of the site