Comments on: Google TrustRank

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Wed, 04 May 2005 08:03:51 +0000

>ranking system (like PageRank?) that is for combatting web spam.

all ranking systems aim to promote good sites and combat spam. One thing that is interesting about TrustRank as a concept is that it is reliant upon human editors to seed the set. So Google can say that its all automated or all algorithmic, but they felt it necissary to trademark a process which as described in its original form required human editors.

By: Anthony Dever

Anthony Dever — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:43:05 +0000

On first glance I’d speculate that TrustRank would be a system much more focused towards ecommerce and Froogle than being a replacement to PageRank.Maybe something like eBay’s feedback system. Well that’s what it’d be if I ran Google.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:46:54 +0000

Trustrank makes sense. Worked good on PGP and I have been waiting for a similar concept on connected webpages / blogs for a long time now. :)

By: Curiouser and curiouser!

Curiouser and curiouser! — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:35:05 +0000

TrustRank

The ProBlogger reports that Google have trademarked TrustRank .

By: jim

jim — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:03:53 +0000

Fyi,
It’s All About Results is the tagline they use with Adwords.
Picture Simplicity is the tagline they use with Picasa, the imaging package they recently acquired.

By: CoderBlog » TrustRank - the new PageRank?

CoderBlog » TrustRank - the new PageRank? — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:21:28 +0000

[...] t they’ve also registered “TrustRank”. Darren supposed that it might be like PageRank, I expect it to be a replacement altogether. It used to be that Pa [...]