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Quoted From Google PageRank, Meet Yahoo WebRank
Where do the scores come from? Yahoo's help pages say the value is calculated by anonymously monitoring what people visit. So if many toolbar users visit particular sites, that might be a factor in helping the sites get a better Web Rank score.
But hold on! When I asked Yahoo earlier this month, I was told that the score is instead determined by Yahoo's search algorithm. That means visits to a site are not counted to create Web Rank. Instead, it's apparently link popularity based, as with Google's PageRank. Unfortunately, Yahoo hasn't yet corrected its help pages to reflect this.
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A somewhat outdated article, but still pretty interesting. Jerry Rank ? LOL
However, so far, IMO Yahoo WR is practically useless . As I've heard in many places it does not show any rank for most of the toolbar (beta) users. So it's most likely that thier beta testing was primarily to keep the spies out. (I still wonder, how digitalpoint got thier hands on the webrank tool). The link you posted earlier was suppose to be the final know release of the beta version. However, it now downloads the normal toolbar. I tried it, but didn't quite convice me to keep it for more than 5 mins.
Anyway, I had a few friends who were talking abt it back in april, so i guess they do have the beta versions. I'll check with 'em.
In the mean time, Google agents aren't uniform. I've been trying different stuff to accomplish high anonymity. However, unless run in client-side (like the firefox extension), it's hard to avoid sending unnoticeable requests from a single server (talking abt large volumes, like the PR tool at seo-guy). One option would be using socks. but thier availablity is totally undesireable. So I'm currently working with javascript to make the requests from the client side and obfuscating the html so that no one is aware of what's happening.
(specially G)
A JSP/Servlet-Applet combination which has both server & client side control would be nice. But only a few hosts run TomCat. Btw, I'll try to write a perl version if I do get some time for it.
Also, for those who need the PR displayed on thier site, here's an easier way,
http://www.pagerank.net/display-pagerank.php
P.S: I just heard that your script is circulating on P2P, some at a cost.
