In my view Google uses its Hilltop algorithm, which identifies so-called "expert documents" (websites) across the web, which are seen as shining beacons of trust and delight! To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has...
Hilltop Model: A really interesting one as it is relatively old but offers Google a way of re-engineering link weight. The Hilltop model will be important here, helping Google power it’s "brand-led" push; handing "expert" status to "brands" and...
Grehan then touched on another famous algorithm called Hilltop. As part of search pioneering and claim staking, Grehan commented, Google later filed a new algorithm patent known as Local Rank that was based on Bahrat's work with Hilltop.
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members goes into much more detail about specific search engine algorithms, including PageRank, HITS, Google's local rank and hilltop algorithms, and others.
I'm increasingly seeing more references to Localrank and Hilltop as the most likely factors regarding the new algorithm and these articles and reports back up my own research. Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web.
However, Google needn't use just the Hilltop algorithm to get some of these benefits and produce some the changes we've seen. Hilltop In Action? Phil Craven of PageRank Explained has an article suggesting that Google might be using another system...
Examines the "Hilltop" system, which can identify pages that can be classified as "experts" from within a large index. Web search engines do better than the TREC algorithm. The authors of this paper try a new test, to measure how well an ideal TREC...
