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Google is a private company that controls your site's reputation via PageRank -- assuming most of us have a personal site/blog, how is this that much different?
by curiouskat 15y ago
Google is a private company that controls your site's reputation via PageRank -- assuming most of us have a personal site/blog, how is this that much different?
- sethbannon 15y agoWhile it's true that Google is in a sense a gatekeeper to people's personal sites, it doesn't claim to be an arbiter of your page's (or your) reputation. Rather, it only claims to be a judge of a page's relevance to the terms a user searches on.
- endtime 15y agoPart of relevance is a query-agnostic reputation score.
- sethbannon 15y agoI stand corrected. I still think it's fair to say that the public doesn't view Google as an arbiter of a page's reputation, though as you say they are certainly aiming to be this.
- curiouskat 15y agoGoogle absolutely is an arbiter of your page's reputation -- you can see the 0-9 logarithmic scale on Google's Toolbar. In the early days of Google/PageRank, the SEO world was abuzz with talk of Google's reputation score for each website, and everyone eagerly awaited the Google update to see how the scores changed.
- narcissus 15y agoAt least Google will remove you easily if you request it (via your robots.txt file).