Tag: RANKING

You've probably gathered by now that the Facebook f8 conference is under away. Juicy details of Facebook's underpinnings are coming thick and fast -- and we're going to try and cover all of them -- but first: EdgeRank, the algorithm that generates your News Feed. In much the same way as Google returns relevant results, EdgeRank uses what it knows about you to produce hopefully-relevant news. ...

So a tipster sent this new site to us, 1337orNot.com. And it seems ridiculously goofy. That's why it caught our eye. In the geekiest and most honest and most tried and true tradition on the internet, our peers decide whats cool and whats not with a simple vote. 1337orNot.com will tell you if you're well...1337 or Not. By uploading your own photo you are clearly Not. But if you have to get up on ...

Web site ranking service Alexa has long been one of the most used, and one of the least trusted ways to figure out how popular a web site is. That's because it's difficult to determine a site's actual traffic without access to the owner's private data. But Alexa's reliance on a small army of users who installed a browser toolbar had an obvious tendency to skew the results toward tech-heavy web ...

There must be something in the water over at Mountain View, because it seems that a day doesn't pass without at least a few significant Google updates. Today we've got enhanced emoticons in Gmail chat, support for group chats, and the company's also experimenting with the idea of letting users vote on search results. The first update is pretty self explanatory. Pretty much every instant messaging ...

About Inc, the lonely search engine company that tends to be forgotten about, is targeting health searchers with its recent purchase of the health care ratings site, UCompareHealthCare.com. The site specializes in rating and providing information on doctors, nursing homes, hospitals, and specialty centers so that people can make more informed decisions on their healthcare. With this purchase, ...