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odd "project's popularity" for marf.sourceforge.net
Hi,
The FAQ states:
http://ohloh.net/wiki/about/faq
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How is a project's popularity calculated?
A project's popularity is computed by querying the Yahoo search API for how many web pages link to the project's home page. You can see the results manually by:
- Visit Yahoo Site Explorer: (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/)
- Type a project's home page, click search
- Look at the top results bar, where it says: 'Pages 1 - 50 of about 14,056 - 0.94 sec.' (or something like that)
The total (14,056 in this example) becomes that project's popularity score. We picked an arbitrary cutoff to mark projects as Popular
or not. It's currently 800, but we might bump this up or down depending on the feedback we get.
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When I do the above for my project MARF (http://ohloh.org/projects/3508) and type its URL
(http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/) as described above in the site explorer of
Yahoo! I get: Pages 1 - 50 of about 2,333 - 1.43 sec.
Howver, ohloh somehow has it
set to just 83
. A bug?
Thanks,
-s
When I do the above for my project MARF (http://ohloh.org/projects/3508) ...
Sorry, MARF's URL is http://marf.sourceforge.net and http://ohloh.org/projects/3508 is its ohloh entry.
Hi mokhov,
My apologies - the faq steps weren't specific enough. I updated them now. The key was to use siteexplorer's inlinks functionality (not the site pages -- as you were seeing). Another point I will add to the FAQ is that the numbers seen from siteexplorer and from what we get using the Yahoo Search API are sometimes a slightly different. In MARF's case, for example, siteexplorer says 38 while the Yahoo Search API says 83.
My apologies - the faq steps weren't specific enough. I updated them now. The key was to use siteexplorer's inlinks functionality (not the site pages -- as you were seeing).
Okay...
Another point I will add to the FAQ is that the numbers seen from siteexplorer and from what we get using the Yahoo Search API are sometimes a slightly different. In MARF's case, for example, siteexplorer says 38 while the Yahoo Search API says 83.
That's 2x difference! Please keep using the Search API :-D
Thanks.
-s