Raider Web Sites Rated Amongst Highest WWII Sites
By Google PageRank System
The U.S. Marine Raider Association (USMRA) web site is rated fourth of
all their rated WWII sites (total of 1021 as of 7/7/04), as determined
by their PageRate system. In ranking of the the first 21 sites five deal
with Raiders. (See Google PageRate table below). The USMRA site is outranked
by the Iwo Jima site, WWII Hyperwar site and War in the Pacific, The US
Marines in WWII. The Google PageRank system is explained in detail below.
(We are sure that Google will excuse our display of their PageRank information,
as it expresses our pride in the exceptionally high rating the Marine
Raiders of WWII have Received. The PageRank Information May be seen at:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/
Government/Military/Marine_Corps/Veterans/WWII/)
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The
Defense Of Wake - http://metalab.unc.edu/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Wake.html
Historical monograph. |
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Iwo
Jima Tribute - http://www.WeathersDesign.com/IwoJima.htm
Created as a tribute to the soldiers who
fought and died on Iwo Jima. Nice sound effects and photos. |
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Don
Langer's USMC & WW II - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/9233/Page5usmc.html
WebPage by Don Langer, Marine veteran of
Guadalcanal; stories on this webpage witnessed by this Marine
firsthand. |
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Archie
Smallwood and the Marine Raiders - http://www.danielpublishing.com/books/suppl/ludwig.html
The fictional story of a company commander
of LtCol Evans F. Carlson's 2nd Raider Battalion. |
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The
Makin Raid - http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/carlsonraidersexecuted.html
The story of the nine Marines left on Makin
and captured by the Japanese in 1942, later executed and buried
on Kwajalein atoll. |
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(Google's Explanation Of PageRank)
PageRank Defined:
Web Pages Ordered by PageRank
Unlike other directories that can only list web pages alphabetically
regardless of how good they are, the web pages in the Google directory
are ordered according to Google's patented PageRank™ technology.
This means that the most relevant and highly-regarded sites on any topic
are listed first ... not buried deep within a list of other pages. You
can read more about PageRank and how it works by clicking
here.
What do the horizontal green bars mean?
The green ratings bars are a measure of the importance of a web page,
as determined by Google's patented PageRank technology. These PageRank
bars tell you at a glance whether other people on the web consider a page
to be a high-quality site worth checking out. Google itself does not evaluate
or endorse websites. Rather, we measure what others on the web feel is
important enough to deserve a link. And because Google does not accept
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The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of
our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've
networked together to create a superfast search engine. The heart of our
software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by
our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while
we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google
on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our
web search tools.
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote,
by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume
of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts
the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important"
weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."Important,
high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each
time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to
you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with
sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important
and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times
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Integrity
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