Comments on: Has anybody kept track of Metafilter's Google PageRank?

Has anybody kept track of Metafilter's Google PageRank?

lbergstr — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:24:22 -0800

Has anybody kept track of Metafilter's Google PageRank? (the little green bar on the Google IE toolbar...dunno how else to view it) Creeping upward, I suspect, but I'm curious. As you all know, as it increases Metafilter threads become better candidates to be included in search results. I'm seeing more and more of them.

By: skallas

skallas — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:34:57 -0800

Are you kidding? I get so many slashdot and metafilter results in random searches that google should start offering a filter.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:06:01 -0800

You want to know how often google indexes a part of MetaFilter?

From the first three weeks of November's stats, Google's bot is more popular than all Netscape browsers combined and robots requested more pages than all Apple Macintosh visitors combined.

By: machaus

machaus — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:14:27 -0800

so are you saying that I will be replaced eventually? guess I should have studied for the turing test...

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:28:24 -0800

If you do a search for "kindall," my MeFi user profile is the #1 result. Boggles the mind.

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:40:56 -0800

Hmm, mine's 8th. Which is pretty good for a fairly common name-unit.

By: lbergstr

lbergstr — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:15:17 -0800

You want to know how often google indexes a part of MetaFilter?

No...if I understand PageRank right, it's a measurement of how often other pages link to MetaFilter, thus MetaFilter's "credibility" on the web.
MetaFilter's PageRank is pretty high, so if a page on MetaFilter links to page x, it'll carry more weight than some random's page linking to x, and be more likely to show up in Google's search results.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:19:53 -0800

eek! I'm ruined!

______________________
Google Search on rushmc:

Metafilter | Comments on 12072
... We are blessed. We are better than you. We are Americans. Get over it.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:24:38 -0800

geoff will now shamelessly will put up links to increase hits.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:57:09 -0800

Am I reading this right? Is the #8 search term for the month "bukkake"?

Right on.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:42:00 -0800

Jeez. I typed in my username to Google and my profile page was the 8th highest result. That's amazingly high.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:51:32 -0800

Mine comes up first, along with some of my comments.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:59:23 -0800

This is so embarassing. Even freakin' Google thinks I post too much!

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:23:14 -0800

MeFi comes up 17th for "Neale".

Keep in mind MeFi has to beat out wwgb, Zora Neale Hurston, and a shark if it wants the #1 spot.

And, of course, the aptly named conversations with God.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:59:36 -0800

I already knew there can be but one WonderChicken (with a head, at least).

This was an unexpected thing, though. Looks like quonsar mirrored 11629! That's cool.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 22:01:04 -0800

Even freakin' Google thinks I post too much!

Don't worry, Miguel. I, for one, don't think you do, anymore.