I always wondered how sites were categorized online. How the credible and major sites made it to the top of the google list makes you wonder what those companies do to get there. Pagerank as we discussed in class is an algorithm based system that allows for sites to be rated better than others based on visitation and clicks on certain parts of the website.
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Someone brought up an interesting question during class that still was in my mind. They asked how people could cheat and just visit there own sites and make frequent traffic to create a buzz for themselves. With google being the only way people research(well most people) it is a big demand to have your site be the number one hit on google search.
I started researching for another class project and thought about different ways to research that were discussed in class. Like narrowing searches with quotation marks or looking up subjects and really searching for specific answers. This helped very much in finding not only good answers, but credible ones at that.
You say you had interesting ideas and discovered very helpful material and you didn't pass it on! Ack! Make the blog post around your discoveries.
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