Yahoo! adds page ranking
Published by Picturesque on Monday, March 22, 2004 at 1:13 PM.
A new page rank indicator called Yahoo! Web Rank has been added to the Yahoo! Companion toolbar. Although it may appear similar to Google's page ranking, there is a marked difference. Google ranks pages based upon recipricol links or popularity of a site. Yahoo! is ranking based upon the number of visits to a web site by people who have the Yahoo! toolbar installed. This makes the Yahoo! score less than meaningful for professional SEO measurement. It also introduces a feature not desired by many surfers.... a program that logs where you surf and sends that information to a database. Can anyone say George Orwell?
