Since last month, I have been seeing a few very interesting advertising hoardings on Bangalore roads. Some that I liked are below -

 

 

1.       C,C++ and Kannada: Widely used languages in Bangalore.

2.       Getting into IIM-B is  harder than getting into Wharton.

3.       There are traffic jams in New York too!

4.       We used to export cardamoms now we export CEO’s

5.       Bangalore is the Spiritual God of the Indian Fashion Industry.

6.       London has Hyde park, we have Cubbon park.

7.        India’s first air-taxi couldn’t have taken off from anywhere else!

ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗೆ ನಂಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಇಷ್ಟವಾದ್ ಎರಡು ಹಾಡುಗಳು  

  

ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ 

 

ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ  ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ…

ಈ   ಸಂತೆ ಸಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಇ ಸಂತೆ ಸಾಕಾಗಿದೆ …

ಏಕಾಂತವೆ  ಆಲಾಪವು  ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾ   ಸಲ್ಲಾಪವು . .

ಇ ಮೌನ  ಬಿಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ    ಓ ಓ  ಓ ಇ ಮೌನ ಬಿಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ

ಇ ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ  ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ… ||

 

ಇ ನೋವಿಗೆ   ಕಿಡಿ   ಸೋಕಿಸಿ  ಮಜಾ  ನೋಡಿವೆ  ತಾರಾಗಣ

ತಂಗಾಳಿಯಾ ಪಿಸುಮಾತಿಗೆ  ಯುಗವಾಗಿದೆ  ನನ್ನ  ಕ್ಷಣ

ನೆನಪೆಲ್ಲವು  ಹೂವಾಗಿದೆ  ಮೈಯೆಲ್ಲವು  ಮುಳ್ಳಾಗಿದೆ

ಇ ಜೀವ ಕಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ …. ಇ  ಜೀವ ಕಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ

ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ  ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ…

ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಆ ಚಂದಿರಾ  ಇ ಕಣ್ಣಲಿ  ಕಸವಾಗಿದೆ ||

 

ಅದನೂದುವ  ಉಸಿರಿಲ್ಲದೆ  ಬೆಳದಿಂಗಳು  ಅಸುನೀಗಿದೆ

ಆಕಾಶದಿ  ಕಲೆಯಾಗಿದೆ  ಇ ಸಂಜೆಯಾ  ಕೊಲೆಯಾಗಿದೆ

ಇ ಗಾಯ  ಹಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ …. ಇ ಗಾಯ  ಹಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ …

ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ  ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ…

ಈ   ಸಂತೆ ಸಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಇ ಸಂತೆ ಸಾಕಾಗಿದೆ …

ಏಕಾಂತವೆ  ಆಲಾಪವು ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾ ಸಲ್ಲಾಪವು..

ಇ ಮೌನ  ಬಿಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ    ಓ ಓ  ಓ ಇ ಮೌನ ಬಿಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ

ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ  ನೀನಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಈ  ಸಂಜೆ  ಯಾಕಾಗಿದೆ…||

 

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

 

   ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

ಅಷ್ಟು ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಬಾರದಿರು

ನನ್ನ  ನಲ್ಲೆ  ಬರಲಾಗದಂತೆ ||

 

ಅವಳಿಲ್ಲಿ  ಬಂದೊಡನೆ

ಬಿಡದೆ  ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಸೂರಿ

ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿ  ಹೋಗದಂತೆ

ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿ ಹೋಗದಂತೆ

ಬಿಡದೆ ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಸೂರಿ ||

 

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

 

ಓಡು ಕಾಲವೇ  ಓಡು

ಬೇಗ ಕವಿಯಲಿ  ಇರುಳು

ಓಡು ಕಾಲವೇ  ಓಡು

ಬೇಗ ಕವಿಯಲಿ  ಇರುಳು

ಕಾದಿಹಳು  ಅಭಿಸಾರಿಕೆ

ಅವಳಿಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದೊಡನೆ

ನಿಲ್ಲು  ಕಾಲವೇ ನಿಲ್ಲು

ನಮ್ಮತೆಕೆ  ಸಡಿಲಾಗದಂತೆ

 

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ  ಬಾ

ಅಷ್ಟು  ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಬಾರದಿರು

ನನ್ನ ನಲ್ಲೆ ಬರಲಾಗದಂತೆ…||

ಬಿರು  ದೀಪವೆ ಬಿರು

ನಿನ್ನ ಹೊಂಬೆಳಕಲ್ಲಿ

ಬೀರು ದೀಪವೇ ಬೀರು

ನಿನ್ನ ಹೊಂಬೆಳಕಲ್ಲಿ

ನೋಡುವೆನು  ನಲ್ಲೆ ರೂಪಾ

ಆರು  ಬೇಗನೆ  ಆರು

ಶೃಂಗಾರ  ಛಾಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ

ನಾಚಿ   ನೀರಾಗದಿಂತು..||

 

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

ಬಾ ಮಳೆಯೇ ಬಾ

ಅಷ್ಟು ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಬಾರದಿರು

ನನ್ನ  ನಲ್ಲೆ  ಬರಲಾಗದಂತೆ ||

 

ಅವಳಿಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದೊಡನೆ

ಬಿಡದೆ ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಸುರಿ

ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿ ಹೋಗದಂತೆ

ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿ ಹೋಗದಂತೆ

ಬಿಡದೆ ಬಿರುಸಾಗಿ ಸುರಿ ||

 

Don’t know Who wrote good one enjoy reading!!!

Peg after Peg

I never take risk while drinking

When I come from office in the evening, wife is cooking
I can hear the noise of utensils in the kitchen
I stealthily enter the house
Take out the bottle from my black cupboard
Shivaji Maharaj is looking at me from the photo frame
But still no one is aware of it
Becoz I never take a risk

I take out the glass from the rack above the old sink
Quickly enjoy one peg
Wash the glass and again keep it on the rack
Of course I also keep the bottle inside my cupboard
Shivaji Maharaj is giving a smile

I peep into the kitchen
Wife is cutting potatoes
No one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: Any news on Iyer’s daughter’s marriage
Wife: Nope, she doesn’t seem to be that lucky. Still they are looking out for
her

I again come out; there is a small noise of the black cupboard
But I don’t make any sound while taking out the bottle
I take out the glass from the old rack above sink
Quickly enjoy one peg

Wash the bottle and keep it in the sink
Also keep the Black Glass in the cupboard
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: But still I think Iyer’s daughter’s age is not that much
Wife: What are you saying? She is 28 yrs old… like an aged horse
I: (I forgot her age is 28) Oh Oh…

I again take out potatoes out from my black cupboard
But the cupboard’s place has automatically changed
I take out the bottle from the rack and quickly enjoy one peg in the sink

Shivaji Maharaj laughs loudly
I keep the rack in the potatoes & wash Shivaji Maharaj’s photo & keep it in
the black cupboard

Wife is keeping the sink on the stove
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: (getting angry) you call Mr. Iyer a horse? If you say that again, I will
cut your tongue…!
Wife: Don’t just blabber something, go out and sit quietly…

I take out the bottle from the potatoes
Go in the black cupboard and enjoy a peg
Wash the sink and keep it over the rack
Wife is giving a smile

Shivaji Maharaj is still cooking
But still no one is aware of what I did
Becoz I never take a risk

I: (laughing) So Iyer is marrying a horse!!
Wife: Hey go and sprinkle some water on your face…

I again go to the kitchen, and quietly sit on the rack
Stove is also on the rack
There is a small noise of bottles from the room outside

I peep and see that wife is enjoying a peg in the sink
But none of the horses are aware of what I did
Becoz Shivaji Maharaj never takes a risk

Iyer is still cooking
And I am looking at my wife from the photo and laughing
Becoz I never take what ????

 

It takes more than guts to make a movie like this and call it mainstream cinema as well. I am amazed at the way Amir has planned this movie, took us through and completely kept the star Amir from the creative Amir who directed the movie. The project requries high level of energy and planning which one could see in the movie.

 

Great movie to watch and rewatch as many times as you wish and make it part of your collections as when the the official version of DVD is released.

 

These are the first scenes of the movie which briefly give a character sketch of Ishaan’s family, a family that could be living anywhere. There are many such scenes which make a mark on the viewer all through out the movie. The first half of the film gives an insight into world of Ishaan his wonderful imaginations and his frustrations on why he’s not able read properly. The second half tells us about the problem that Ishaan is facing and how he is able to come out of the it with flying colors. The second half is also filled with many scenes that touchs your heart.

Don’t remember the last movie that made me shed my tears…

would recommend all to go and watch this movie

watch this for -

1.darsheel’s acting.(I have never seen a child act so brilliantly)

2.it will bring back some nostalgic childhood moments.

3.good for teacher.

4.may help u to become a best father.

 

MAA

 

Main Kabhi Batlata Nahin

Par Andhere Se Darta Hoon Main Maa

Yun To Main,Dikhlata Nahin

Teri Parwaah Karta Hoon Main Maa

Tujhe Sab Hain Pata, Hain Na Maa

Tujhe Sab Hain Pata,,Meri Maa

 

Bheed Mein Yun Na Chodo Mujhe

Ghar Laut Ke Bhi Aa Naa Paoon Maa

Bhej Na Itna Door Mujkko Tu

Yaad Bhi Tujhko Aa Naa Paoon Maa

Kya Itna Bura Hoon Main Maa

Kya Itna Bura Meri Maa

 

Jab Bhi Kabhi Papa Mujhe

Jo Zor Se Jhoola Jhulate Hain Maa

Meri Nazar Dhoondhe Tujhe

Sochu Yahi Tu Aa Ke Thaamegi Maa

 

Unse Main Yeh Kehta Nahin

Par Main Seham Jaata Hoon Maa

Chehre Pe Aana Deta Nahin

Dil Hi Dil Mein Ghabraata Hoon Maa

Tujhe Sab Hai Pata Hai Naa Maa

Tujhe Sab Hai Pata Meri Maa

 

Main Kabhi Batlata Nahin

Par Andhere Se Darta Hoon Main Maa

Yun To Main,Dikhlata Nahin

Teri Parwaah Karta Hoon Main Maa

Tujhe Sab Hain Pata, Hain Na Maa

Tujhe Sab Hain Pata,,Meri Maa

“Hamari Hindi filmon ki tarah hamareProjects mein, aakhir tak sab kuch theek ho jaata hai ….Happyzz Endingzzz ….Aur agar aisa na ho to samjhoProject abhi baaki hai mere DOST …….. “

SRK is not my favorite but the movie has created a hype around it which makes me anticipate the movie eagerly. He looks the cool dude in the movie. The song CHAK DE has me swooning over it. Hey All the SRK fans and so called Cool Dudes; how about a date at the theatre? 

The movie revolves around the story of a Hockey coach for a girl’s team and a young Sikh girl who wants to join the Hockey team but does not get the approval of her parents. SRK will be seen sporting a beard in the film. According to him in a recent interview, SRK plays a guy who is a little sad in life. He has just one aim, which is to see the Indian tri-colored flag hoisted with all the other countries’ flags. The girls are being put through a rigorous exercise regime and all their activities are being shot to be later telecasted in a reality show format playing a part in the film’s promotion later on. The team arrives in Australia to play for the women’s world cup and that is when their struggle begins for dignity and self respect.(source :Wikipidia).

(found this article so apt for us guys)
Oasis to Mirage

I would like to express my transition from real freedom to assumed freedom. I am here talking about my transition from my college to the booming IT industry. I would like to pour my one year experience of the so called glamorous and fun filled IT industry.

We used to wander those spacious heat filled open grounds and dirty class rooms with just 50Rs. in pocket and plan the whole week with that budget. But now we wander along the well cleaned, fully air-conditioned corridors with about five to six credit cards in our pocket planning where to swipe the cards. Credit cards eagerly waiting to eat next month’s salary. I can’t believe that it was just one year before that the 50Rs. seemed to be lacks now, lacks seems to be nothing.
 
College canteen, Tea shops were the favorite hot spots where we spent hours together, having a hearty chat with our buddies forgetting the whole world. But now Cafe Day, Quickies, Baristas have taken those places. What a coffee cost 2.5Rs last year has now gone up to 50Rs a cup.
 
Those precious days where we used to laugh for nothing, while chatting or while playing or even when you fail in your paper because you have got 30 marks for a empty paper. But now you rarely smile except the smile for the forward you just received or the smile to your PM to impress him.
 
Hate ness and Ego were the words you haven’t heard in those days. You smash or hit your friend for some reason and the next moment you walk along him with hands on his shoulders. But now you doesn’t like the guy sitting beside you because he’s getting a salary 10k greater that you or he’s always being appreciated by your PM. True friends are hard to find here
 
In college if some one is talking badly about your college you can find your blood boiling inside even though you don’t like your principal. But here loyalty is the lost word; whenever someone is talking badly about your company you join them to criticize your company. You join the company with the resignation day in the mind, is this loyalty. Don’t mind I have also planned my resignation date.
 
You have seen the late nights only on the eve of the exam, where you rely on your friend to wake him/ her at night 1 or 2. And how we can forget those last minute tensions in exam, you remember that only just before entering the exam you find that you have forgotten to revise a important question that your friend suggested that it will surely appear on this exam. You rush back and flip those Xeroxed pages with tension. But today you work at least 2 days a week till 1 or 2 in the night to deliver something to your unknown client who is at US or UK. You are aimlessly typing at the useless word document that your PM asked you to finish with his tailor made smile. Loads of tension with calls from home, with your eye lids eager to kiss each other and you promise them to allow it a little later, cursing Bill Gates for inventing MSWord. 
 
It seems I have been in my own desert where I have realized that I am moving from the warmth ness of the Oasis to chase a mirage. A mirage that promises a lot of thing, but still it’s just a mirage. When I turn back I can find thousands chasing that mirage with a ID card around their neck. I wish all the best for them. 

Dear God

I promise i will never waste my food no matter how it is bad it can be taste and how full i may be.I pray that he will protect this little boy,guide and deliver him away from his misery.I pray that we more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish  nature and  interests.

    I hope this picture  will always  serve as reminder  to us that how fortunate we are  and the we must ever take things for granted.

Think and look at this …when you complain about your food we wasted daily.

I don’t know who wrote this my friend Mahendra Shanabhag found @ Infosys Bulletin Board.  Here it is …..   WAQT NAHI

Har khushi Hai Logon Ke Daman Mein, Par Ek Hansi Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.
Din Raat Daudti Duniya Mein,
Zindagi Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Maa Ki Loree Ka Ehsaas To Hai, Par Maa Ko Maa Kehne Ka Waqt Nahi.
Saare Rishton Ko To Hum Maar Chuke,
Ab Unhe Dafnane Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Saare Naam Mobile Mein Hain,
Par Dosti Ke Lye Waqt Nahi.
Gairon Ki Kya Baat Karen,
Jab Apno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Aankhon Me Hai Neend Badee,
Par Sone Ka Waqt Nahi.
Dil Hai Ghamon Se Bhara Hua,
Par Rone Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Paison ki Daud Me Aise Daude,
Ki Thakne ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.
Paraye Ehsason Ki Kya Kadr Karein,
Jab Apane Sapno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Tu Hi Bata E Zindagi,
Iss Zindagi Ka Kya Hoga,
Ki Har Pal Marne Walon Ko,
Jeene Ke Liye Bhi Waqt Nahi…….

Google PageRank: What

 Do We Know About It?

Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?

In this article we put the facts straight.

Over the last weeks we’ve done an extensive research and selected dozens of facts and suggestions about PageRank, which seem to be true in practice. Besides, we’ve collected academic papers related to the issue – such as scientific proposals for better search results (such as Topic-Sensitive PageRank); you’ll also find references to mathematical background of PageRank as well as 16 useful PageRank tools you can use to analyze und track the ranking of your web-projects.

• Update: We are going to publish the .PDF-version of this post soon, so subscribe to our RSS-feed to keep track on our next posts.
• You don’t have to read the whole article. Most important facts are selected in the beginning of the post as a brief summary.
• You might be interested in reading our article Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools, which should provide you with the most important facts, tools and resources about Google AdSense.

Summary: How Does PageRank Work?

1. PageRank is only one of numerous methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance.
2. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google looks not only at the sheer volume of votes; among 100 other aspects it also analyzes the page that casts the vote.
3. PageRank is based on incoming links, but not just on the number of them – relevance and quality are important.
4. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn)). That’s the equation that calculates a page’s PageRank.
5. Not all links weight the same when it comes to PR.
6. If you had a web page with a PR8 and had 1 link on it, the site linked to would get a fair amount of PR value. But, if you had 100 links on that page, each individual link would only get a fraction of the value.
7. Bad incoming links don’t have impact on Page Rank.
8. Page Rank considers site age, backlink relevancy and backlink duration.
9. Content is not taken into account when PageRank is calculated.
10. PageRank does not rank web sites as a whole, but is determined for each page individually.
11. Each inbound link is important to the overall total. Except banned sites, which don’t count.
12. PageRank values don’t range from 0 to 10. PageRank is a floating-point number.
13. Each Page Rank level is progressively harder to reach. PageRank is believed to be calculated on a logarithmic scale.
14. Google calculates pages PRs once every few months.
15. Google tries to find pages that are both reputable and relevant.

Summary: Impact on Google PageRank

1. Frequent content updates don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
2. High Page Rank doesn’t mean high search ranking.
3. DMOZ and Yahoo! Listings don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
4. .edu and .gov-sites don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
5. Sub-directories don’t necessarily have a lower Page Rank than root-directories.
6. Wikipedia links don’t improve PageRank automatically (update: but pages which extract information from Wikipedia might improve PageRank).
7. Links marked with nofollow-attribute don’t contribute to Google PageRank.
8. Efficient internal onsite linking has an impact on PageRank.
9. Related high ranked web-sites count stronger.
10. The anchor text of a link is often far more important than whether it’s on a high PageRank page
11. Links from and to high quality related sites have an impact on Page Rank.
12. Multiple votes to one link from the same page cost as much as a single vote.
13. Site can be banned if it links to banned sites.

1.1. What is PageRank?

• “PageRank is [only] one of the methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance.” [PageRank Explained Correctly]
• “Google uses many factors in ranking. Of these, the PageRank algorithm might be the best known. PageRank evaluates two things: how many links there are to a web page from other pages, and the quality of the linking sites. With PageRank, five or six high-quality links from websites such as www.cnn.com and www.nytimes.com would be valued much more highly than twice as many links from less reputable or established sites.” [Google Librarian Central]
• “PageRank has only ever been an approximation of the quality of a web page and has never had anything to do with the measuring of the topical relevance of a web page. Topical relevance is measured with link context and on-page factors such as keyword density, title tag, and everything else.” [PageRank: An Essay]

1.2. How Does PageRank work?

• No one really knows.“No one knows for sure how PageRank is currently calculated by Google.” [Google PageRank Explained]
• PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn)). “That’s the equation that calculates a page’s PageRank. In the equation ‘t1 – tn’ are pages linking to page A, ‘C’ is the number of outbound links that a page has and ‘d’ is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.”
• We can think of it in a simpler way: a page’s PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a “share” of the PageRank of every page that links to it). “share” = the linking page’s PageRank divided by the number of outbound links on the page. A page “votes” an amount of PageRank onto each page that it links to. The amount of PageRank that it has to vote with is a little less than its own PageRank value (its own value * 0.85). This value is shared equally between all the pages that it links to.” [Google’s Page Rank]
• “The core Google PageRank algorithm “distributes” it’s established PR across all of the outbound links. Put differently, if you had a web page with a PR8 and had 1 link on it, the site linked to would get a fair amount of PR value. But, if you had 100 links on that page, each individual link would only get a fraction of the value.” [The Importance of PageRank]
• “From this, we could conclude that a link from a page with PR4 and 5 outbound links is worth more than a link from a page with PR8 and 100 outbound links. The PageRank of a page that links to yours is important but the number of links on that page is also important. The more links there are on a page, the less PageRank value your page will receive from it.” [Google’s Page Rank]
• “PageRank [..] uses the link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; e.g. it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.” [Google: Technology]
• “Not all links weight the same when it comes to PR. So an ‘important’ page linking to you gives you more PR than a ‘less important’ one. […] A factor in PR propagation is the number of out-links the ‘voting’ page have. So a PR4 page with only one out-link on it might give you more weight than a PR5 page with 100 out-links on it. A typical example here would be the famous milliondollarhomepage. This page is PR7 page with hundreds of out-links therefore its weight is would contribute very little to your page PR.” [Google PageRank Explained]
• Each Page Rank level is progressively harder to reach. “PageRank is logarithmic in its calculation. In the same way that the earthquake Richter scale is exponential in calculation, so too is the mathematics behind Google PageRank. It takes one step to move from a PR0 to a PR1, it takes a few more steps to PR3, it takes even more steps to PR4, and many more steps again to PR5, and so one.” [Google Page Rank FAQ]

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• “PageRank does not rank web sites as a whole, but is determined for each page individually. Further, the PageRank of page A is recursively defined by the PageRanks of those pages which link to page A.” [The Page Rank algorithm]
• “Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to user’s search. Google examines all aspects of the page’s content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it’s a good match for user’s queries.” [What Is Google PageRank?]
• “Google calculates pages PRs once every few months (PR update). After a PR update is done, all pages are assigned a new PR by Google and you will have this PR until a new PR update is done. New sites that were just launched will have a PR of 0 until an update is done by Google so that they are assigned an appropriate PR.” [Google PageRank Explained]
• PageRank values don’t range from 0 to 10. PageRank is a floating-point number. “It’s more accurate to think of it as a floating-point number. Certainly our internal PageRank computations have many more degrees of resolution than the 0-10 values shown in the toolbar.” [Matt Cutts]
• “We’re sure that their curve is similar to an exponential curve with each new “plateau” being harder to reach than the last. I have personally done some research into this, and so far the results point to an exponential base of 4. So a PR of 6 is 4 times as difficult to attain as a PR of 5. [..] The difference between a high PR of 6, and a low PR of 6, could be hundreds or thousands of links.” [Top 10 Google Myths Revealed]
• “PageRank is believed to be calculated on a logarithmic scale. What this roughly means is that the difference between PR4 and PR5 is likely 5-10 times than the difference between PR3 and PR4. So, there are likely over a 100 times as many web pages with a PageRank of 2 than there are with a PageRank of 4. This means that if you get to a PageRank of 6 or so, you’re likely well into the top 0.1% of all websites out there. If most of your peer group is straggling around with a PR2 or PR3, you’re way ahead of the game.” [Importance of Google PageRank]
• “The fact is that PageRank is based on incoming links, but not just on the number of them. Instead PageRank is based on the value of your incoming links. To find the value of an incoming link look at the PR of the source page, and divide it by the number of links on that page. It’s very possible to get a PR of 6 or 7 from only a handful of incoming links if your links are “weighty” enough.” [Top 10 Google Myths Revealed]
• “Google tries to find pages that are both reputable and relevant. If two pages appear to have roughly the same amount of information matching a given query, we’ll usually try to pick the page that more trusted websites have chosen to link to. Still, we’ll often elevate a page with fewer links or lower PageRank if other signals suggest that the page is more relevant. For example, a web page dedicated entirely to the civil war is often more useful than an article that mentions the civil war in passing, even if the article is part of a reputable site such as Time.com.” [Google Librarian Central]
• Links don’t give PR away, they are votes. “When a page votes its PageRank value to other pages, its own PageRank is not reduced by the value that it is voting. The page doing the voting doesn’t give away its PageRank and end up with nothing. It isn’t a transfer of PageRank. It is simply a vote according to the page’s PageRank value.” [Page Rank Explained]
• “We know from the paper “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” (Paper) that the PageRank of a Web page is a number calculated using a recursive algorithm in which the page receives a share of the PageRank of each page that links to it.” [Google PageRank]
• Crawlers don’t analyze web-sites permanently. “It often takes two full monthly updates for all of your incoming links to be discovered, counted, calculated and displayed as backlinks.” [Google FAQ]

1.3. Which factors do have an impact on PageRank?

• Each inbound link is important to the overall total. Except banned sites. “PageRank is a form of a voting system. A link to a page is a vote for that page. Higher PageRank pages are viewed by Google as more important. Their votes are given more value by Google — much more value, in some cases. In general, the more voting links, the stronger the PageRank.” [Google PageRank FAQ]
• Adding new pages can decrease Page Rank. “The effect is that, whilst the total PageRank in the site is increased, one or more of the existing pages will suffer a PageRank loss due to the new page making gains. Up to a point, the more new pages that are added, the greater is the loss to the existing pages. With large sites, this effect is unlikely to be noticed but, with smaller ones, it probably would.” [PageRank Explained]
• Page Rank can decrease. “You can lose some important links that are no longer linking to your site. PR loss can also occur if some of your linking partners also experience a drop in their own PR, possibly setting off a chain reaction of lower PageRank all through the immediate linking network.” [Google PageRank FAQ]
• Headers (h1, … ,h6), strong tags and semantic content are important. (Update: But it doesn’t improve PageRank.) “Place it in the description and meta tags, place it in bold/strong tags, but keep your content readable and useful. Be aware of the text surrounding your keywords, search engines will become more semantic in the coming years so context is important.” [Let Google’s Algorithm Show You The Traffic
• Efficient internal onsite linking is important. “Internal linking is important to your overall ranking. Make sure your linking structure is easy for the spiders to crawl. Most suggest a simple hierarchy with links no more than three clicks away from your home/index page. Creating traffic modes or clusters of related links within a section on your site has proven very effective.” [Let Google’s Algorithm Show You The Traffic
• Links from and to high quality related sites are important. “The more closely related the pages, the higher the PageRank amount transferred.” “Linking to high quality sites shows the search engines your site is very useful to your visitors. Unless your site has been around for years and is well established and trusted by Google, this factor will have an adverse effect on your site’s overall ranking. Linking only to high quality content sites will give your site an edge over your competition.” [Let Google’s Algorithm Show You The Traffic, FAQ]
• Anchor text is important. The more specific is the reference, the better Google can evaluate it and consider it in relates search queries.
• Google penalizes link farms. “Google is only concerned with pages of over 100 outgoing links. Google considers overly linked pages to be link farms, and they are penalized as such.” [Google FAQ]
• Incoming Links from popular sites are important. If pages linking to you have a high PageRank then your page gains some part of their reputation.
• Site can be banned if it links to banned sites. “Be extremely careful of any out-going links from your site. Don’t link to bad neighborhoods (link farms, banned sites, etc.) Google will penalize you for bad links so always check the PageRank of the sites you’re linking to from your site.” [SiteProNews]
• Illegal activities will penalize your PageRank and possibly ban your site from Google. “Hidden text, deceptive redirects, cloaking, automated link exchanges, or anything else against Google’s quality guidelines” can ban your site from Google.
• Google considers site age, backlink relevancy and backlink duration. If backlink isn’t relevant, it won’t weight much.
• Myth: the higher your google PageRank, the better the results. “While pages with a higher PageRank do tend to rank better, it is perfectly normal for a site to appear higher in the results listings even though it has a lower PageRank than competing pages. [..] Google examines the context of your incoming links, and only those links that relate to the specific keyword being searched on will help you achieve a higher ranking for that keyword.” [Top 10 Google Myths Revealed]
• Related high ranked web-sites count stronger (or don’t they?). “One-way inbound links from websites with topics that are related to your website’s topic will help you gain a higher Page Rank.” Other one-way inbound links from pages with high page rank but unrelated topics do help a little, but not nearly as much. [What Is Page Rank?]
• Different pages from a site can have different Page Rank. “Search engines crawl and index webpages not websites, that is why your page rank may vary from page to page within your website.” [What Is Page Rank?]
• “The anchor text of a link is often far more important than whether it’s on a high PageRank page.” [What Is Google PageRank?
• “If you really want to know what are the most important, relevant pages to get links from, forget PageRank. Think search rank. Search for the words you’d like to rank for. See what pages come up tops in Google. Those are the most important and relevant pages you want to seek links from. That’s because Google is explicitly telling you that on the topic you searched for, these are the best.” [What Is Google PageRank?]

1.4. Which factors don’t have an impact on PageRank?

• Frequent content updates don’t improve PR automatically.” Although Google might send crawlers more frequently to analyze your site, what is more significant are links pointing to you.
• “Content is not taken into account when PageRank is calculated. Content is taken into account when you actually perform a search for specific search terms.” [Google PageRank]
• “High PageRank does NOT guarantee a high search ranking for any particular term. If it did, then PR10 sites like Adobe would always show up for any search you do. They don’t.” [What Is Google PageRank?
• Wikipedia Links don’t improve Page Rank. “Wikipedia implemented a no-follow rule, indicating that outbound links should not be followed by search engine spiders.” [A Survival Guide to SEO & Wikipedia]
• Listing in DMOZ and Yahoo! doesn’t give your site a special PR Bonus. “Google uses Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org), to power its directory. Coupling that fact with the observation that sites listed in DMOZ often get decent and inexplicable PageRank boosts, has lead many to conclude that Google gives a special bonus to sites listed in DMOZ. This is simply not true. The only bonus gained from being in DMOZ is the same bonus a site would achieve from being linked to by any other site.” However, DMOZ data is used by hundreds of sites.” [Top 10 Google Myths Revealed]
• Sub-directories don’t necessarily have a lower Page Rank than root-directories. Depending on the popularity of a web-site your subdirectories can have a higher PageRank than the root pages.
• Meta-Tags don’t improve PageRank. “Google can sometimes use the meta description tag to create an abstract for your site, so it may be useful to you if your home page is primarily composed of graphics. However, do not expect it to increase your rank.” [10 Google Myths Revealed]
• .edu and .gov-sites do not provide higher PageRank (or do they?).“We don’t really have much in the way to say “Oh this is a link from the ODP, or .gov, or .edu, so give that some sort of special boost.” Its just those sites tend to have higher PageRank because-because more people link to them and reputable people link to them.” [A Google Myth Busted]

 

• Links marked with nofollow-attribute don’t contribute to Google PageRank. “Google implemented a new value, “nofollow”, for the rel attribute of HTML link and anchor elements, so that website builders and bloggers can make links that Google will not consider for the purposes of PageRank — they are links that no longer constitute a “vote” in the PageRank system.” [Wikipedia: PageRank]
• Multiple votes to one link from the same page cost as much as a single vote. “It is reasonable to assume that a page can cast only one vote for another page, and that additional votes for the same page are not counted.” [PageRank FAQ]
• Links from one page to itself don’t improve Page Rank. “It is reasonable to assume that a page can’t vote for itself, and that such links are not counted.” [PageRank Explained]
• Bad incoming links don’t have impact on Page Rank. “Where the links come from doesn’t matter. Sites are not penalized because of where the links come from.” [Google PageRank]
• Dangling links don’t have impact on Page Rank. “Dangling links are simply links that point to any page with no outgoing links. They affect the model because it is not clear where their weight should be distributed, and there are a large number of them. Because dangling links do not affect the ranking of any other page directly, we simply remove them from the system until all the PageRanks are calculated. After all the PageRanks are calculated they can be added back in without affecting things significantly.” [PageRank Paper]

2.1. Google PageRank: Theory & Scientific Background

• A Survey of Google’s PageRank
  Calculation of Page Rank, Page Rank Implementation, Inbound Links, Outbound Links, Number of Pages, PageRank Distribution, Additional Factors and more.
• The Lineal Algebra Behind Google
  The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector – The Linear Algebra Behind Google. Google’s success derives in large part from its PageRank algorithm, which ranks the importance of webpages according to an eigenvector of a weighted link matrix. Analysis of the PageRank formula provides a wonderful applied topic for a linear algebra course.
• The Intelligent Surfer: Probabilistic Combination of Link and Content Information in PageRank
  We propose to improve Page-Rank by using a more intelligent surfer, one that is guided by a probabilistic model of the relevance of a page to a query. Efficient execution of our algorithm at query time is made possible by precomputing at crawl time (and thus once for all queries) the necessary terms.
• Topic-Sensitive PageRank
  To yield more accurate search results, we propose computing a set of PageRank vectors, biased using a set of representative topics, to capture more accurately the notion of importance with respect to a particular topic. By using these (precomputed) biased PageRank vectors to generate query-specific importance scores for pages at query time, we show that we can generate more accurate rankings than with a single, generic PageRank vector.
• Method for node ranking in a linked database
  A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. By Page and Lawrence.
• How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web’s Haystack
  Mathematical Background of Google PageRank. By David Austin, Grand Valley State University
• A Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
  Original Slides, by Larry Page.
• Wikipedia: PageRank
  Mathematical Theory Behind Google PageRank

3.1. Google PageRank Tools & Services

• PageRank Search
  Showing search results in order of PageRank.
• Google PageRank Inspector.
  Google PageRank inspector is PHP scripts that can seek all of your website, include out linked page or not, and display Pagerank value for each of your website pages. New pages linked by high pagerank pages can be indexed in google quickly and have higher keyword rank in google search.
• Google’s PageRank – Calculator
  The results produced by the calculator indicate each page’s PageRank share and are not equivalent to the values in the Google toolbar.

• Webmastereyes, Visual PageRank View
  The results will show the page given along with the PageRank of each link on that page. You also have the option to show “nofollow” and external links.
• Smart PageRank
  Checks PageRank from multiple datacenters and sends emails automatically if PageRank is updated.
• Google PageRank Notifier
  “This script will send you an email whenever the PageRank of the given page changes. PageRank is taken from the Google Toolbar “API” and is updated once an hour.”
• Google PageRank™ Checker (registration required)
  You can monitor site’s PageRank via RSS and you can also be notified via e-mail when the PageRank has been changed.

• Dig PageRank
  Checks the current Page Rank of a page in over 100 Google data centers.
• Live PageRank Check
  The Live PageRank value may be used as an indicator of what will show when Google decides to export the PageRank values to the Google Toolbar. The Live PageRank calculator gives you the current PageRank value in the Google index, not just the snapshot that is displayed in the toolbar. Google updates its internal PageRank value continuously as the web changes and their index is updated. Only once every third month or so this value is exported to be displayed in the Google Toolbar.
• Page Rank Widget for Mac OS X.
  Llittle Widget finds the Google Page Rank for any URL by calculating the checksum and requesting the PR from Google’s servers.

• Google PageRank Prediction
  The tool analyzes the popularity of a given web-site and tries to predict its future Google PageRank. More Page Rank Tools.
• PageRank Checker
  Shows PageRank of your backlinks.
• PageRank Overlay (PR Mapper) (both currently offline)
  Browse your competitors website and view the Google PR of all the links at once. Also available as Firefox Extension.
• PageRank Decoder (Demo)
  “This little tool is not too much different then a tool that tells you your PageRank, however it allows you to organize your sites (with PR information) in a visual network and then correspondingly connect them with arrows. You can move them around like cards, connect them or not, and even delete them by throwing them in a trash can.” [Search Engine Roundtable]

• Page Rank Export List History
  This Page Rank Update/Export List History contains the dates that Google Toolbar Pagerank (PR) was exported.
• Google Ranking Factors
  Alleged positive and negative SEO Google Ranking Factors

3.2. Google Tools & Services

• Google Quality Guidelines
  These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites).
• Check if your site is in Google database
• Reinclusion request form
  Request reinclusion of a site that has violated the webmaster guidelines
• Google Tools
  A comprehensive overview on Dmoz.org.