faster search engine than google?

[KwikStah]

I remember reading a newspaper a few weeks ago, talking about a search engine that claimed to be better than Google, because it ranked sites based on number of links from related web pages instead of just number of links total, but I can’t seem to find it, or the article, anywhere.

Anyone know what I’m talking about?

[Crusoe]

Google claims to do that with its PageRank technology:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”

[Crusoe]

Google claims to do that with its PageRank technology:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”

[Crusoe]

Apologies.

[London_Calling]

Google’s PageRank technology is still considered to be pretty well state of the art. Where it really wins is that PageRank makes it more difficult for webmasters to deceive the search engine into thinking one ‘lesser’ page is more relevant, or has better content, than another more helpful page.

Even if Google does take a fraction of a second longer, which I doubt, the issue is not really one of speed (we’re talking fractions) but of relevancy to the search term and quality of the pages it brings to the top of the results page for that keyword search.

Most search engines have the first part figured pretty well (relevancy), Google/PageRank, via its link analysis, still leads the way in bringing quality to the top - and that, ultimately, saves more time than anything else.