[WikiEN-l] Search Wikia

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Jan 8, 2008 12:46 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome to the black art of trying to figure out search engine
> algorithms. First google is a bad choice of comparison here it
> overanks wikipedia compared to pretty much everyone else. The most
> popular theory is that google is more relying on domain authority than
> pagerank. There are other elements such as site age and content change
> rate that could be causing wikipedia to rank highly. There are other
> theories.

For whatever it's worth ... I monitor google search rankings for WP
and it's declined a lot over the last few months.