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With the big buzz of Novembers fall within Google comes a newly indexed data-base...
Did Google do something bad to our great placements? No I don't think so and here's why.
While people are screaming for help and wondering what went wrong, I've noticed a MASSIVE shift in page ranking.
If you look at top placements at the moment, according to Scroogle, most of the ecommerce search terms got hit really hard. A lot of the top 100 placements were vanishing and quickly.
Now on the other hand, less impressive and especially smaller ranking sites have been bumped up top.
For the ones that dont know, historically, to measure an articles importance there the system is to have citing number, meaning all the times that that article has been quoted by someone else. The idea is that if lots of different people quote an article, this means that this article is worth while and important. Well, apparently Google isnt looking only to this, but also to the content of the article.
The Google Page Rank algorithm, also called PR, seems to give more importance to the impact of a scientific article than to its quoting number.
Sidney Redner and Pu Chen from the University of Boston and Huafeng Xie and Sergei Maslov from the National Laboratory of Brookhaven revealed that sure articles that proved to be very influential . Like the article of Wigner and Seitz, from 1933 "On the Constitution of Metallic Sodium" , which is now University book regular content. Another example is the article of Gauber from 1963 about "Photon Correlations", which receive the Nobel Prize last year. These articles werent known using the regular quoting algorithm, but shower up very high in google and got a very high PR.
Researchers have revealed that the Google algorithm, when measuring a web sites importance , offers a systematic system to find important articles . The google index proved better that the traditional system to find the nice scientific articles, that weret that much quoted by others but which were proven to be of a very high value.
The way google does it is by allowing his spiders to dig deep in to the quoting web and see how lots of times the article that quoted the first article was quoted, and so on, meaning that if the article that quoted your article is of great value, also your article increases in value.
