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Google - 2008 Winner

Friday, February 1st, 2008

2008 SEMMY WinnerLet’s skip the corny, canned jokes and the awkward moments at the podium and just open the envelope, shall we? Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the 2008 SEMMY Award in the Google category is … drum-roll, please …

Why Google Can’t Just “Dump” PageRank
Dan Thies, SEO Fast Start | 11/9/07

Congratulations to our winner! Here’s a choice bit from the winning post:

The biggest benefit of using PageRank doesn’t come in at the ranking step, it comes in at the document retrieval stage, when you’re trying to decide which of 27,438,902 documents that matched the query text are actually worth ranking. The search engine’s job at the retrieval stage is to pick 1,000 documents to rank, without losing any really important documents.

PageRank excels at this. In fact, PageRank’s role in the retrieval process is why Google’s “Supplemental Index” exists.

Runners-Up

The top two runners-up in public voting were:

  1. What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters
    Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land | 4/26/07
  2. Google 2.0: Google Universal Search
    Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land | 5/16/07

The winner and runners-up are welcome to grab the appropriate badge — we have a badge for both winners and runners-up.

How the Voting Ended

Here’s a look at how each finalist fared in the public voting:

Google - 2008 winner

Thanks to all who voted, and congrats again to the winner, runners-up, finalists, and all nominees. We look forward to reading your acceptance speech soon!

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Google - 2008 Finalists

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The judges have made their choices, and the finalists in the Google category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards are:

The Finalists

Congratulations to each finalist! Please grab a finalist badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists has begun.

Here’s How to Vote

Now it’s your turn to choose a winner! Please read each article above and decide which one you feel is the best. When you click below, you’ll be able to vote in this category only. To vote in other categories, please visit the pages listing those finalists. Voting is open now, and will close at end-of-day on January 30, 2008.

VOTE NOW IN THIS CATEGORY (link will open in a new window)

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Google - All 2008 Nominees

Friday, January 4th, 2008

The following are the nominees in the Google category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards. Our judge(s) will narrow this group down to 5-6 finalists. Congratulations to all nominees! Please grab a nominee badge and let your readers know that public voting on the finalists is just around the corner.

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