So that’s what’s popular, eh?
I’m a bit surprised at just how few of the top sites by PageRank I’ve actually visited in the last however-long my browser’s history currently is…
- Yahoo
- AltaVista
- Amazon
- Apache.org
- GNU (why? don’t remember)
- PHP
- MP3.com
- Wired
- Yahoo Groups
- Mozilla
- The Onion
- Blogger
Maybe three or four others where I just go straight to some other URL like catalog.loc.gov, but for the most part it’s just stuff I’ve got no interest in ever seeing.
Update: even stranger, if that’s actually the most commonly linked sites with the URL as the link text. That many people link to Blogger with http://www.blogger.com? Odd, very odd.
I have trouble believing that explanation is true (links only with the ”http://”). I mean, the major reason Blogger would be on there is, clearly, because of Blogger-powered pages, and the powered-by button, which do not use that method.
However, it’s not PageRank, exactly, either, because Blogger has a higher page rank than some in the list before it.
It could, however, still be the raw most-linked-to list (PageRank being a more complicated algorithm, I believe.
I believe the explanation is true. For instance the domain http://www.nobel.se has a strong pagerank of 10, but the side is not listed under the top 1000 searches for http. This demonstrates that PageRank is not as important as most people believe.