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Google's Site Ranking Secrets
vivin writes "Ever wonder how Google's site ranking works? Wonder no more. Google recently filed United States Patent Application 20050071741 on March 31, 2005. This patent reveals a great deal of information about Google's site ranking algorithm and makes very good reading. For example, one of the criteria that they use is the number of years that your site has been registered. If your site has been registered for less than a year, then it counts against you. A site registered for a longer period of time means that the owner is probably serious about the site, and the site is probably legitimate. Google's Site Ranking algorithms reveal how hard they are making it for spam sites to get listed (on Google). This information will also make it easier for you to make sure that you get listed well in Google."
They should indeed.
You are, perhaps, being a little unfair to the Slashdot Editors here. It's the community that does most of the modding, not the Editors.
It would be foolish to contend that there isn't something of a pro-Linux leaning on Slashdot, rather than pro-Microsoft, but that just represents the community that use it.
Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones.
OTOH, the help view is remarkably heinous. The way it mangles the text is extraordinarily un helpful.
"2) What does ASP have to do with sites going down?"
Since ASP is a server side script, it means the machine has to do more processing than say an HTML file every time it serves it. PHP's in the same boat, but I have no idea if it takes more or less processing power per page than ASP.
"Derp de derp."