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Don Logan posted this at 13:57—18th April 2006.

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I’ve heard rumours that the ranking metric of search engines is gonna change in the next few years to give new pages a chance of getting noticed sooner rather than later and combat the ‘rich get richer’ cycle of established pages. Is there any truth in this and how is going to effect search engine standards and businesses? I’m trying to plan ahead.

ms2072 posted this at 16:04—18th April 2006.

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I think it's hard to look too far ahead in the search engine world although what you say may be true. (It is possible at the moment to get new pages into the index within a matter of days).

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The Webmistress posted this at 16:07—18th April 2006.

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Where did you hear this?

locatepeople posted this at 22:09—18th April 2006.

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I think it is just a rumour at this point. but yeah it is very unfair on new pages but it is a good way of filtering out spam.

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Busy posted this at 09:32—19th April 2006.

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Wouldn't it be nice if the search engines didn't list link farms and affiliate farms and stuff. WOuld make the web a nicer place to be instead of every tom fred and cecile trying to get rich

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OldWelshGuy posted this at 01:40—20th April 2006.

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There are indeed big changes ahead at Google. here is some information regarding a massive change called TrustRank

Quote: Web spam pages use various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings in a search engine's results. While human experts can identify spam, it is too expensive to manually evaluate a large number of pages. Instead, we propose techniques to semi-automatically separate reputable, good pages from spam. We first select a small set of seed pages to be evaluated by an expert. Once we manually identify the reputable seed pages, we use the link structure of the web to discover other pages that are likely to be good. In this paper we discuss possible ways to implement the seed selection and the discovery of good pages. We present results of experiments run on the World Wide Web indexed by AltaVista and evaluate the performance of our techniques. Our results show that we can effectively filter out spam from a significant fraction of the web, based on a good seed set of less than 200 sites.

The snippet above is from a white paper delivered by Stanford University (where Page and Brinn the founders of google came from).
I have written an article and some graphic explanations about this on my site, you can read it here http://www.umbrella-consultancy.co.uk/art1-trustrank.htm I have tried to keep it simple though so don't worry about tech talk Laughing out loud

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netwhip posted this at 08:44—3rd May 2006.

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Interesting... It goes to show that you need to do things right... right now.

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