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Originally Posted by peteshimmon
I am never quite sure of the Google ranking
system. It seems that it will have an
arbitrary listing at first that becomes
self fulfilling as folk choose the hits in the
order presented by and large. They do not have
any insight of the hit rate of websites do
they?
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Hit rate doesn't factor into it at all. It's the number of links to a page (the link rate, if you will) that is the primary determining factor of its ranking. See here for an explanation of Google's Page Rank algorithm:
http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/pagerank.html