The day before the Palin annoucment, I looked her up. Typing Palin into google, the first hit was the Wikipedia page for Monty Python's Michael Palin. Scrolling down I eventually found stuff about the Alaskan Mayor Palin. The next day after the announcement was news, I googled Palin again. Now the VP candiate Palin had usurped the actor/comedian Palin as the top hit. So I was wondering if anyone knew how google decides which website will come up and in what order - is it by hits, how many people are searching for a given name? - which means they can see what people are looking up? Google itself gave me this explanation involving domesticated pigeons: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html - though I like this explanation quite a bit, I'm doubtful that it's legit. Thanks in advance if anyone can educate me on this.
it has to do with how many other pages contain links to that page. so if your personal homepage for example, is linked to by 500,000 other pages, it will show up higher on the listing than a page that is linked to from only 100,00 other pages. make sense?
it has to do with number of searches on the topic and number of hits on the web page containing pertinent information on the topic. all about statistics.. so the reason it all came up with her on top the second time is that far more people were searching her name and clicking on relevant links than the first time you searched...
