What Do The Search Results Mean?
What does the percentage rank mean?
The percentage rank is a score against how each result matches your search query. The search engine uses a customised ranking system to measure the University web pages against your query.
Documents are ranked according to the following criteria:
Document content - includes text plus title and subject, keywords and description metadata.
Metadata - structured encoded data that describes content with the purpose to aid searching for information.
Incoming anchor - these are the words that can be clicked on in order to get to the document.
Inlink count - the search engine counts up the number of incoming links and interprets them as votes that this page is useful. The count distinguishes links from the same site and those from outside and weights them differently.
URL length - assumes that important pages (particularly site home pages) have shorter URLs.
Recency - assumes that recent information may be more valuable than old.
What are featured pages?
Featured pages are links to web pages that are listed above the search results. Featured pages are associated with particular search queries and represent links to material that the University of Sydney wishes to highlight.