On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:09:54PM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Is it my imagination or has Wikipedia articles lost
almost all Google page rank ratings? Check out and
test pages listed on:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_10_Google_hits
Every one I tested was no longer in the top 10. For
example, searching for <"Cartesian product"> doesn't
seem to find our Wikipedia article (which was the #1
hit) and more shocking is that < "Cartesian product"
Wikipedia> doesn't bring up the current .org article
either! See
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as…
It is as if everything in
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is
being totally ignored by Googlebot for some reason.
As far as I understand how google works,
www.wikipedia.com had high page rank and lot of links to it.
Now almost all of these links go to
www.wikipedia.org, so:
*
www.wikipedia.org has links but low page rank
*
www.wikipedia.com has high page rank but few links
So neither will get good scores at google.
It will improve when google will refresh their cache.