Originally Posted by cyco_cc

Dipshit. No, I do not confuse such terms as I have a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science and a decade of software development under my belt.



PageRank is a numeric representation of the quality ("authority") of incoming links. Pull out a crayon and a piece of paper. Draw a nice little dot in the center. Name this dot "Babaganoosh's Great Website". Now, and stay with me here because you may be confused already, draw several dots around the dot in the center and connect them to your dot with a straight line. Each one of these dots represents a site and each line represents a link to your site. These are your incoming (inbound) links. Now, we do some fancy math involving some probability distributions, sums, linear algebra and some other stuff you'll never be able to do because you're a fucking retard and we come up with a number. We're going to call this number Page Rank. We're going to display it as a little green bar as to not confuse Babganoosh too much but clearly Google has failed in that regard.

So, as anyone can see by your beautiful crayon drawing (best thing you've ever done in your life, btw, CONGRATS!), Page Rank is merely a numeric representation of the quality/quantity of inbound links, or as you put it, link popularity.


Dipshit.