PageRank is trivial in the overall scheme of things

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Template-Trivial-0.07

Template-Trivial-0.07 02/13/2004 05:13 AM

Triumph of the Trivial

Triumph of the Trivial 07/31/2004 01:56 AM

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Template-Trivial-0.06

Template-Trivial-0.06 01/26/2004 06:30 PM

Template-Trivial-0.05

Template-Trivial-0.05 01/07/2004 06:21 PM

Hasbro's Trivial Release

Hasbro's Trivial Release 01/04/2005 03:46 PM
The company celebrates National Trivia Day by reinforcing its board game brand.

Trivial Road Tripping

Trivial Road Tripping 12/03/2003 12:37 AM

Heeeeeeey, Kate - I think I've found our entertainment for next week's trip to Springfield!!

TRIVI AL PURSUIT® for Palm OS

"The world's most popular trivia game is now available for users of Palm Powered handheld devices. With incredible new game features, the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® Handheld Edition rewards the clever, while still highlighting everyone's trivia talents. The game features over 1600 questions in six categories- Sports and Leisure, Arts and Entertainment, History, Science and Nature, People and Places, and Wild Card.

In Classic mode, players of the board game will find comfort in its familiarity, while experiencing the benefits of automated card selection, rolls of the die and token movement. Flash mode offers a ladder-style version of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game in which one to six players take turns answering questions. Players move up the ladder with every correct answer and the first player to reach the top rung and answer the final questions is the winner. Play in single player mode or against two to six opponents in local hot seat mode and multiplayer" [Handango]

I'm particularly intrigued by the following two interactive options, especially since I'll be playing this on my Treo 600!

• "Multiplayer support of 2-6 players over Bluetooth and IR (Infra-red)
• Multiplayer lobby offers a meeting place for a networked game including chat among players"

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio 01/03/2004 12:11 AM
If you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox, a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)

Broadband Users Better At Trivial
Pursuit

Broadband Users Better At Trivial
Pursuit 09/22/2004 02:58 PM
Now that so many people have broadband, what are they doing with it? Broadband Reports points to a study suggesting that broadband users know a lot more useless info. They know a lot more from all that surfing -- but a lot of it is really trivial information. Of course, they determine this based on how involved users are with "important political developments," which seems like a fairly subjective metric. A more reasonable conclusion might be that people who are politically active find that important enough to do, even at dialup speeds. Once they get broadband, however, they don't increase their political activity, because they've already gotten as involved as they could -- so they use the extra speed to do other things that are important to them.

Trivial Pursuit Auditions At Comic-Con

Trivial Pursuit Auditions At Comic-Con 07/24/2004 07:48 AM
Hasbro Games held auditions at this year's Comic-Con, giving fans a chance to become immortalized as part of the upcoming Star Wars Trivial Pursuit DVD Game. Check out all the details, including the cutest little Darth Maul ever, by clicking here.

Breaking into voicemail systems is a
‘trivial task’

Breaking into voicemail systems is a
‘trivial task’ 09/04/2004 06:57 AM

Missing Briton no trivial matter
(Reuters)

Missing Briton no trivial matter
(Reuters) 08/09/2004 02:16 AM
Reuters - The hit board game Trivial Pursuit has been pulled from shelves in Australia's Northern Territory because of a question about the mystery outback disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio, a court has heard.

Bruner Blog: Rick Bruner's
self-indulgent rants, peeves, trivial
obsessions, etc.

Bruner Blog: Rick Bruner's
self-indulgent rants, peeves, trivial
obsessions, etc. 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
Rick Bruner has a brilliant essay as to why he supports the war with Iraq in spite of everything .. liberal voice for the war .. Let's have a war already .. head screwed on straight .. refuting

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""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."

""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..." 07/13/2004 03:21 AM

Trivial Pursuit - What classic board
game, created in 1979, is on the
decline? By Bryan Curtis

Trivial Pursuit - What classic board
game, created in 1979, is on the
decline? By Bryan Curtis 04/18/2005 02:26 AM
Trivial Pursuit: that game of wit and erudition, invented by Canadian hockey fans .. the great repository of middlebrow boomer culture

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Algorithm-PageRank-0.07

Algorithm-PageRank-0.07 08/22/2004 05:23 PM

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.06

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.06 09/16/2004 07:41 AM

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.07

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.07 09/16/2004 05:07 PM

More PageRank Mania

More PageRank Mania 06/14/2004 09:48 AM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Sadly, it appears that PageRank is often the driving factor in how and why people link to each other, and that is just plain wrong. When a site owner refuses to link to a great...

PageRank for Firefox 1.0

PageRank for Firefox 1.0 01/06/2005 08:20 PM

Algorithm-PageRank-0.05

Algorithm-PageRank-0.05 08/22/2004 05:58 AM

Algorithm-PageRank-0.06

Algorithm-PageRank-0.06 08/22/2004 05:58 AM

Pagerank For Sale

Pagerank For Sale 08/20/2002 10:13 AM
As predicted by members this last winter, high page rank sites begin to swap links for cash.

The dangers of PageRank

The dangers of PageRank 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

A well documented side effect of the weblog format is that it brings Google PageRank in almost absurd quantities. I'm now the 5th result for simon on Google, and I've been the top result for simon willison almost since the day I launched. High rankings however are not always a good thing, especially when combined with a comment system. A growing number of bloggers have found themselves at the top position for terms of little or no relevance to the rest of their sites, which in turn can attract truly surreal comments from visitors from search engines who may never have encountered a blog before.

I know of a couple of entries on my own blog that are attracting this kind of traffic. The most interesting is probably this entry on artifical diamonds, which has attracted comments from both buyers and sellers of artificial gems. My entry on MSN messenger usability problems from 2002 has drawn a steady stream of hilarious comments, no doubt caused in part by its top rating on Google for msn messenger sucks. Amusingly, for a long time Microsoft's own search engine was giving my page a high rank for a wide variety of less negative messenger related terms.

My own experiences of this phenomenon pale in to significance to some of the others I've seen. The most impressive example has to be Jason Kottke's brief review of the Matrix Reloaded, which drew over 900 comments from Google strays, developed its own micro-community and resulted in Jason pondering who owns the conversation on my web site? Jason eventually deciding to close and archive the thread after the page grew to more than a megabyte in size.

The problem can take on a far more disturbing twist. I won't link directly to these entries for fear of adding to their predicaments, but searches for crime scene cleanup and suicide chat rooms both return blogs in the first two results. The former thread is mostly crime scene cleanup companies marketing their services, but the latter is quite frankly disturbing. It's certainly lead me to double check the titles of my entries before posting them.

Thankfully, avoiding this kind of unwanted comment traffic is pretty simple. One way is to simply disable comments for entries older than a certain time (generally a couple of weeks), although personally I like to see the occasional comment on old entries. A neater solution proposed by Russell Beattie last year is to simply hide comments from search engine referrals, thus ensuring that random strays won't leave their mark without understanding the nature of your site first.

Google-PageRank-0.03

Google-PageRank-0.03 09/08/2004 10:35 AM

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.05

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.05 09/15/2004 05:58 AM

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.04

WWW-Google-PageRank-0.04 09/09/2004 11:04 AM

How Important is PageRank, Really?

How Important is PageRank, Really? 04/13/2005 03:04 PM

Algorithm-PageRank-0.08

Algorithm-PageRank-0.08 08/23/2004 06:57 AM

PageRank Without Backlinks

PageRank Without Backlinks 08/31/2004 05:33 PM
"I went to the site today to see PR5. Pretty good for a site that I have never promoted, that logs dont any refers from. And that Google or Yahoo show any backlinks to."

Algorithm-PageRank-0.03

Algorithm-PageRank-0.03 08/22/2004 05:58 AM

Algorithm-PageRank-0.04

Algorithm-PageRank-0.04 08/22/2004 05:58 AM

Google-PageRank-0.01

Google-PageRank-0.01 09/08/2004 07:12 AM

Blogs and PageRank

Blogs and PageRank 07/15/2004 10:09 PM

Will the preponderance of blogs these days wreak havoc with Google's PageRank model? It used to be that you couldn't get a link from a big name site without having something they they wanted to link to. And if they linked to it, then they liked it, so others might as well, thus a higher PageRank. Not so anymore.

I can get a link on SixApart.com by posting a comment or a trackback. Ditto for Kottke. I can't on Boing Boing, but I can on Don Park's site. And there a lot of other blogs out there with PageRank values of, say, seven and up that I can get a link on very easily.

This site, for instance, has a PageRank of six, and you can get a link from here by just saying some intelligent (sadly, we've taken steps to eliminate the PageRank value, but I may remove that because other steps have helped cure the spam problem).

So, with all these high PageRank sites out there, it's getting easier to increase the PageRank of your own site. And you don't even have to spam — even a dolt can come up with something intelligent to say about post. Keep it remotely relevant, you won't get deleted, and — voila! — you just finagled a link from a site with decent PageRank.

This being the case, will PageRank's relevance and value deteriorate over the next few years?

(This begs another question — would Google ever allow you to designate links as self-service? By using a special comment or something, you could declare to the GoogleBot that you didn't add these links yourself, instead they were added by the link's target. And if this happened, would you do it? Would you essentially screw your commenters? Would people be more likely to comment on blogs that advertised that they didn't marginalize links using this method?)

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pagerank 10 sites

pagerank 10 sites 07/22/2004 01:32 PM
someday you'll be able to pay for pagerank 11

Google-PageRank-0.02

Google-PageRank-0.02 09/08/2004 10:35 AM

googlebar with pagerank for firefox

googlebar with pagerank for firefox 08/16/2004 02:04 PM
one less reason to ever start up IE

CGI Redirected URLs and PageRank

CGI Redirected URLs and PageRank 06/19/2002 08:56 AM
When a directory listing with a CGI redirect points to your site, does this benefit your Page Rank?

New: Google PageRank Toolbar

New: Google PageRank Toolbar 07/14/2004 10:04 AM
Google PageRank Toolbar is a widget for Konfabulator and Safari that monitors what page is active in Safari and shows its Google PageRank.

PageRank For Sale Ads Proliferate

PageRank For Sale Ads Proliferate 06/25/2004 08:48 AM
A few ads pop up on Google from sites specifically selling PageRank based links.
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