Google: faster indexing leads to artificially inflated rankings

[mandy]

Google has been indexing pages faster in what looks like an attempt to provide some semblance of real time search queries on particular topics, and while this has become more than evident today, it’s also raising some serious questions on Google’s prized search algorithm. In indexing pages in a faster manner, they are shown in search results minutes after they’re published, but this leaves a weakness for Page Rank, because there are little or no backlinks for Google to reference.

The result is artificially inflated rankings based on historical data and whatever backlinks are present. As GoogleSystem has pointed out, the flaws from this system have now become plain as day. What the flaw allows for is an outpouring of spam results appearing at the top of a query, out-ranking Wikipedia results and other resources that you’d expect to be at the top of the page...

full article: http://mashable.com/2008/01/01/google-pa...h-results/

[accentnepal]

..... out-ranking Wikipedia results and other resources that you’d expect to be at the top of the page...

Friking Wikipedia is always at the top of the page. If I wanted to ask Wiki then I would  have asked wiki.....

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Bet when Wikipedia starts to cut into Google's search business those wiki pages will somehow not rank so high.

[regic]

Bet when Wikipedia starts to cut into Google's search business those wiki pages will somehow not rank so high.

I'll bet you're right.

[BellisimaJ.]

They are indexing much faster than a  year ago, I noticed.

What the flaw allows for is an outpouring of spam results appearing at the top of a query

You can friggin' say that again!