Report #3

As previously mentioned, we will be giving short reports to applicants and members. More detailed reports will be circulated to members only. Currently, there are 312 URLs in the program. Sites are accepted upon condition of strict Search Engine Guidelines, (see Membership for details).

These "early" findings are based on Double Blind experiments. These notes are not "published findings" or finished research. These reports are simply some noted preferences we have discerned, and they are certainly open to discussion and review.

Here is a list of some of the variable "preferences" we have discovered and incorporated into our models...

  1. The date or age of the URL can prompt a Higher Ranking. It seems that once a prompt has been delivered to an algorithm it can take up to six months for a result.
  2. Links to a URL, (external links) coming from a unique URL, which may be deemed as "popularity" are given a preference when displayed in this fashion... (eq. [1]):

    | l (G)| = d + (1 - d)/N S_i B_i,

    where the B_i represents the quotient P_i/C_i, the popularity of node i divided by the out-links of node i within the Directed Graph G(V,E), and N is order(G).

  3. Links pointing out of the subject URL seem to generate the highest preference when

    S_i (p_i/ A_i) < |l(G)|, OR S_i {(d - r_i)/ l (B_i - A_i)} < |l(G)|.

    Conversely, the URL loses "preference" if the number of out-links exceeds 20% of the number of external in-links.
  4. Content relates to the above quotation ... Meaning "Key Words" gain preference when eq. [1] holds. And, the same "Key Words" can drain "preference" if the ratio of Links to Key words exceeds the threshold |l(G)|, the value of the principal eigenvector of the directed graph G(V,E) of the 312 node space.
  5. Links directed to the other sub-pages of the URL of a "large site" (deemed over 100 pages) affect "preference" according to this
    1/|l(G)| < S_i p_i (B_i / C_i)

Once again, these are "very early" findings based upon a mere few hundred URLs.

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