Web's Biggest adds website popularity rank
18 February 2005
Search engine The Web's Biggest has announced that it has adapted its site to enable users to sort their search results so the most popular websites display first.
Search results also include the Web's Biggest "Popularity Rank", which tells searchers how popular websites are based on the number of visitors they receive from all sources.
The popularity rank comes from monitoring the web surfing habits of millions of people and the number of visits each website receives is counted and ranked compared to all others.
Santa Monica-based Web's Biggest also offers searchers the option of sorting search results by relevancy if they prefer. Most search engines rank search results by the number of hyperlinks pointing to a website.
"Website traffic is a more accurate indication of how popular a website is than hyperlinks which tend to favour academic and reference sites over truly popular ones," said Web's Biggest spokesman Adam Radly.
Web's Biggest claims to search more websites than any other search engine and has licensed the entire Whois database of more than 40 million domain names, enabling them to search almost every website in the world. Web's Biggest estimates that most search engines search fewer than 10 million websites.
The search engine use information gathered by its web crawler to summarise what each website is about and stores all past descriptions of websites in a database so other users can undo or correct descriptions, making it the world's biggest "wiki".
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