How Google Real-Time Results are Ranked – The First Draft, Ross Dunn, Stepforth (Dec 8)
This posting examines how Google may be evaluating and ranking real-time results. Authoritativeness is the key concept - to weed out spam and evaluate tweeters based on the quality of their followers and related activity. Update Rank is the likely name for the ranking algorithm, as Page Rank has been for web sites.
Posted by Gwen at December 12, 2009 03:53 PM