Scientific American Partnership

[_Mayday_]

I bought my first American Scientist a few weeks back, has anyone read the artcile on CERN? I thought it was great, it explained it a lot better than other magazines I have found on the subject. Even these new articles in "news" on the forums look interesting, I can only see this being a good thing.

_Mayday_

 

[Raavin]

Congrats!

Hey there,

It's been ages since I was posting regularly on PF but I'm still subscribed and keep track of what's going on. I remember when the forum started and Greg was just a kid. I think from memory he was 16 or 17. It's great to see how things have gone and that it has gained such esteemed recognition.

Congrats Greg.

Raavin ;)

 

[Icheb]

In nearly all countries but the US (e.g., Canada, Singapore, Philippines, India, Australia, UK) PF enjoys a similar or much better page rank than sciam.com. Sciam has a lot to gain from this partnership too.

Ok, you heard about Google's Pagerank, and now I'm telling you to forget about it again.

Several years ago Pagerank was a huge determining factor in how websites were ranked, but this is not so anymore!

The quality of the link is much more important, making Pagerank as a quantifier of a website's success utterly useless. Spam one million guestbooks with your link and your website won't get anywhere near #1 in the search engine results pages. On the other hand, a couple of editorially given, highly relevant links will help you out a LOT.

Ok, now you can forget about Pagerank. Right now. Do it.

I am interested on hearing how do you got such data? Google insider, are you ?

You don't have to be an "insider" to know this kind of stuff. There are tools with which you can query different data centers so you can see what a website's Pagerank is across Google's servers. However claiming that a difference between data centers has any significance at all for a longer period of time is absolutely pointless as well. The copy of the web on some data centers is simply more current than the one on other data centers and after a while an update gets pushed across the entire network.

But let's forget Pagerank ever existed, shall we?

Now, you are probably right. Alexa shows that PF is a good match to sciam, in fact better than the other new partners.

Oh God, Alexa. Do you even know how they calculate their data? People have to install the Alexa toolbar on their PCs and that toolbar sends out usage information. And the people who usually install this toolbar are webmasters, it has little to no value for anyone else. So all Alexa can tell you is how popular a given website is among webmasters.

I bought my first American Scientist a few weeks back

You bought a scientist from the USA? How did you get him through customs?

 

[akan]

Hello,

How do I claim the 20% discount?

Thank you!

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Hello,

How do I claim the 20% discount?

Thank you!

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=226363

Watch this space, GB, will be supplying a link presently.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=226363

Watch this space, GB, will be supplying a link presently.

I asked sciam about the creation of the gateway and it still being developed. I hope we can present a link within the next couple weeks.