Google’s measure of a website’s link popularity : on a scale from 0-10

Within the past few years, Google has become the far most utilized search engine worldwide. A vital factor therefore was, besides high performance and ease of use, the superior quality of search results compared to other search engines.
Since the early stages of the World Wide Web, search engines have developed different methods to rank web pages. Opposite to the concept of link popularity, Page Rank is not simply based upon the total number of inbound links. The basic approach of Page Rank is that a document is in fact considered the more important the more other documents link to it, but those inbound links do not count equally.

www.google.com 10

The definition of Google refers to the world renowned company Google. Although Google was created in the mid 1990′s, Google is actually derived from a word with a long history; googol: meaning of Googol is “the number 1,
Followed by one hundred zeros”. The word Google was also used with googol Plax in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, previous to the companies making. In that word, the definition of google would be referring to a large entity.

www.yahoo.com 9

Yahoo is the second largest search engine, trailing only Google. Yahoo is one of the oldest directories on the internet and is also one of the top three search engines. Originally a search engine, Yahoo has become a site that is a useful portal for anything from online auctions to virtual communities.

www.facebook.com 9

An online network open to college students at certain universities. Students make up their own profiles which include a picture, name, birthdate, interests, and classes. They can then search for other students at their university or another university that has the face book. One can add people they know or random people as their “friends.

www.twitter.com 9

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users. Twitter is
a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and
delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

www.adobe.com 9

The Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions is software that users can use to enable some features, in Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) 5.1 and later on a per-file basis. These are features otherwise found in the full licensed product Adobe Acrobat.

www.gamespot.com 9

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information.

www.msn.com 8

Short for Microsoft Network, Microsoft’s online service. Like competing services such as America Online, MSN offers e-mail, topic-related forums, and full access to the World Wide Web.

www.digg.com 8

Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories. A community-based Web site where users submit content and rate that content by “Digging” what they see and like best. A submission that earns a larger number of Diggs, and therefore is more popular with users, is moved the Digg homepage for the category of content it belongs in. The Digg Web site was founded by Kevin Rose and launched in November 2004.

www.myspace.com 8

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, and groups. Once you have created a profile on MySpace, you can search or browse other users’ profiles. If you want to add someone as a friend, just click the “Add to Friends” link on that person’s profile page. If the person approves your friend request, he or she will be added to your list of friends.