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Post by StephiB on Jan 13, 2006 9:45:06 GMT
I did change it back. You've probably noticed.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 13, 2006 11:08:46 GMT
I never saw it as anything else.
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Post by bubble on Jan 20, 2006 8:40:45 GMT
yES, I noticed. It doesn't really matter either way, but I prefer the original name, unless anyone has any brilliant names to change it too. Hey, I feel a new competition coming on....
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Post by StephiB on Jan 20, 2006 12:19:07 GMT
Nooooo ... there's not really any point on this forum ...
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 20, 2006 13:45:23 GMT
Nah. It's OK as it is.
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Post by bubble on Jan 20, 2006 22:16:58 GMT
Ok, that sounded fairly against a name change. Why? I thought that although there's nothing wring with 'teens cience forum', it;s just a little boring/
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Post by StephiB on Jan 21, 2006 2:42:45 GMT
Boring but reliable and serviceable if we find a place to advertise.
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Post by CRG on Jan 21, 2006 12:01:17 GMT
I don't think it's boring...
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Post by bubble on Jan 21, 2006 20:52:32 GMT
but we don't jhave a place to advertise, and I've tried SPAMming all over some unused forums, hoping that links on useless forums will get us on google, but it doesn't seem to have worked. How do you get on google? Is it the number of links, or the number of times the links are clicked on or some other complicated method?
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 23, 2006 12:00:31 GMT
I think it's a complicated method to do with other places on google linking to you, and how good google thinks those other sites are. Hmmm... reasearch time, I think... From www.google.com/technology/The heart of our software is PageRankā¢, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools. PageRank Explained 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." Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
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Post by StephiB on Jan 24, 2006 7:15:33 GMT
Interesting.
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Post by bubble on Jan 24, 2006 8:45:24 GMT
Yes, but that means that me SPAMming all over unused forums does pettyu much nothing. The UMMF has done quite well, because that comes high up in searches for both murdous maths, and murderous maths discussion board. We aren't on google at all. I've tried 'dancing pineapple appreciation society' many times, and it just says that nothing mathces if you put it in quote marks, and a load of random stuff if you do.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 24, 2006 9:15:22 GMT
I suppose it's because the UMMF is linked by the true MM site, and we aren't.
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Post by bubble on Jan 24, 2006 18:23:09 GMT
Well, you can kind of see why. Bt surely we're linked to on a site that's linked to an important site...
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 25, 2006 11:30:31 GMT
But the UMMF isn't as important - or linked by as many - as the MM site.
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