Comments on: Top 30 FriendFeed Users Based on Google Ranking

By: Increase website traffic

Increase website traffic — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:28:00 +0000

Increase website traffic how can i put to the top my site Link building..

By: elliottng

elliottng — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:54:50 +0000

Can you periodically recalculate this? Thanks!

@elliottng

By: sull

sull — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:35:41 +0000

“… some people made the point that this just searches for who is using the term “friendfeed” most (which seems the main reason why Scoble and Gray made the top besides they're heavy users)!”

i dont think that it's as simple as that, with a test i ran. i'll give it more time though.

By: Top 30 Friendfeed users according to Google Rankings. Interesting » Infinitely Meta

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:42:21 +0000

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By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:30:16 +0000

Alexander,

Yes, I agree that there are other methods that can be used to create ranking lists. I was just having fun with this. Your method seems better & Mitchell Tsai has also written about using Google page counts here. I'm glad that this post has created some dialog on using other ranking methods and I look forward to watching what others create.

By: Alexander Ebel

Alexander Ebel — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:26:44 +0000

I adopted this idea to get the "Top 30 german-writing friendfeed users" by just restricting the search to language=german:
http://intelligentesleben.blogspot.com/2008/06/...

But in the discussion on friendfeed ...
http://friendfeed.com/e/d10fa425-a662-63ac-f59c...
... some people made the point that this just searches for who is using the term "friendfeed" most (which seems the main reason why Scoble and Gray made the top besides they're heavy users)! Is there any reason you left this term in? Wouldn't it be better to do the search just for the domain friendfeed.com without any specific term at all?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq...

By: Phil Glockner

Phil Glockner — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:10:38 +0000

Aww, thanks Susan!

By: sull

sull — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:03:13 +0000

"Well, now we know who the most important FriendFeed users are" was the title of the post that started this.

http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/06/12/w...

"So it's fun to see how Google's algorithm levels the playing field somewhat to provide these stats."

that's what i mean, their should not even be a playing field to level.

By: kevinpshan

kevinpshan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:35:09 +0000

Thanks for noticing this. I feel famous now!

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:24:00 +0000

I never said “most important” anywhere in my post. In fact, to the contrary, after paging through Google’s results I thought it would be fun to put this together because (a) it contained many people that are great FriendFeed users yet not at the top of the digerati & (b) I was surprised to find myself appear in it.

The measuring stick for popularity on Twitter is Twitterholic which is based on number of followers. FriendFeed has consciously decided not to expose this number for users of its service. So it’s fun to see how Google’s algorithm levels the playing field somewhat to provide these stats. Until someone comes up with something better, this is all we got.