Sorting criteria for site indexed search

Hi

How does Google sort the results of a domain's indexed pages ? (Google: site:mydomain.com) ?

Are these based on relevancy ? 1st link has most popular hits, 2nd has the next-most-popular-hits...and so on ?

Thanks

 

i think they are sorted chronological by date of indexed

 

Google does not say. Google know that if the order of sort is done mathematically then people will find the formula. So, i think google displays the result randomly to some extend. I could be wrong.

 

Good point sunmoon but I was thinking their sorting algorithm would be so complex that it wouldnt be possible to figure it out so easily.

 

Interesting thread.

I found out that there must be some algorithm, maybe kind of alphabetic, because for few sites with very similar subpages I see very similar sorting.

 

Google has always been keen on relevancy. The whole idea behind Google's search is the relevancy of the page with-respect-to others. So I was assuming it would be the same for site:domain.com search.

 

Its not random because you get get the same order everytime but I think the algo is very complecated.

 

There is a possibility that google shows the files that have oldes "last modified" attribute first and later on...

Just a thought.

 

I think they show pages by relation to index page content.

 

IMO, pages are sorted according to their value. It's easy to check - I've tried several very popular sites (such as dmoz.org, cnn.com, etc.) and at first 5 results was index page and most important pages of these sites.