http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/26/1157212.shtml?tid=217 Word Mark TRUSTRANK Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: computer services, namely organizing information, sites and other resources available on computer networks Standard Characters Claimed Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK Serial Number 78588592 Filing Date March 16, 2005 Current Filing Basis 1B Original Filing Basis 1B Owner (APPLICANT) Google Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94043 Type of Mark SERVICE MARK Register PRINCIPAL Live/Dead Indicator LIVE Code (markup):
@ kewler Which do you mean? On the search I found several documents - to which one do you refer? Your link goes "search session has expired..."
This is what I mean http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/show...4-52&format=pdf&compression=&name=2004-52.pdf
Looks like they want to segregate the bad sites of the web, in terms of outbound links from good sites meaning trust in the linked site (the target), they even call it some kind of inversed PageRank... Of course some experts are going to select a 200 seed-sites, the prototypes for the good sites, so to speak
So a little bit more of Trustrank's mechanics has been revealed. This is speculating because no official annoucement has been made but this make sense. Google Web Accelerator was released and what does it do? From http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html it says So basically it knows what links people click on, what pages people get referred to, and view the most often. With this information, Google can rank links and sites by "trust". If there's a site with alot of people clicking on the links, then obviously it is a more legit site. If there's a site with a bunch of links that no one clicks on and it's more for PR and keyword linking and no one clicks on it then it'll have less "trust".
Bit of a long shot there Jiraiya. I think they are completely unrelated. But anyway, maybe Michael Martinez at the spider-food.net forums will come up with another pearler of an explination as he has been doing lately.