2008/9/23 Kwan Ting Chan ktc@ktchan.info:
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 03:15 -0400, Elias Friedman wrote:
Interesting. That other "knol" that was lifted from an earlier revision of our own article (without attribution as "Slate" correctly points out) still has all of it's links and footnotes pointing back at Wikipedia! Not sure how that's going to lift Knoll's pagerank.
One don't have to worry about PageRank when one own the search engine...
Google have said they're not going to push it but let queries reach their natural level of pagerank depending on how useful they show themselves to be to people in practice. Which would make sense - Google is a popular search because it's good, and only as long as it's good; giving an artificial boost to their own properties would risk shooting themselves in the foot.
(For interest: http://www.startupbin.com/google-google/ - Google results stripped of Google sites.)
- d.