# How to perch atop the Google summit?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445 "2003-04-27T04:44:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445/21 "2003-04-28T01:23:58Z")

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Did you try feeding the [pigeons](http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) ?🙂

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445/22 "2003-04-28T02:10:13Z")

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Well, your server doesn’t seem to display the behaviour **tschild** demonstrated anymore; give it any User-Agent string other than “” and it works. I think they’re blaming you, but privately said “Oh crap!” and fixed it. 😉

Relevence for OP: make sure your server is robot friendly.

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**Author:** ![tonbo0422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@tonbo0422](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonbo0422)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445/23 "2003-04-28T03:28:48Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by Severian \*  
\*\*I believe a lot of the Google PageRank is based not on the content of a page, but rather on how many other sites link to that page and what those linking pages are about.

Hmm. I don’t believe this is the way it works. I went URL=http://www.site-pro.com/tools/rankpro/]here and had them check how many other sites were linked to mine, and I got a sorry total of ten.

If your linking theory were correct, that number should be in the hundreds.

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**Author:** ![tonbo0422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@tonbo0422](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonbo0422)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-perch-atop-the-google-summit/171445/24 "2003-04-28T03:30:43Z")

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So THAT’s what “parse URLs” means:D

Here it is again (hope it works this time):

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Originally posted by Severian  
\*\*I believe a lot of the Google PageRank is based not on the content of a page, but rather on how many other sites link to that page and what those linking pages are about.

Hmm. I don’t believe this is the way it works. I went URL=http://www.site-pro.com/tools/rankpro/]here and had them check how many other sites were linked to mine, and I got a sorry total of ten.

If your linking theory were correct, that number should be in the hundreds.

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