Is there good sites that provide ranking of computer processors performance? [more inside]
posted by idyllhands on Oct 30, 2009 - 17 answers

Help me find a simple web app: Users are able to enter items, other users are able to rate those items, and the aggregated rating score is used to display the items as a ranked list. Like digg/pligg, but without the bells and whistles. The app should be open source and installable on any major server.
posted by lord_yo on Jul 3, 2009 - 2 answers

Is there a simple program that will help a person rank their preferences of a list of items by presenting them with a series of A vs. B matchups? [more inside]
posted by soonertbone on Apr 21, 2009 - 7 answers

Help me sort out this problem of ranking bracket winners... Thx in advance, hivemind. [more inside]
posted by mhh5 on Jan 22, 2009 - 7 answers

There are lots of pages that display portraits of professional and amateur athletes next to their statistics. Where can I find portraits and statistics/rankings of the people who compete in more intellectual/less physical competitions? I'd love to see what the best (and not so great) chess, scrabble, and crosswords players look like.
posted by eisenkr on Jan 22, 2009 - 6 answers

What are external links, and what value do they provide to my site ranking? Are they important? [more inside]
posted by Nixie Pixel on Jan 21, 2009 - 3 answers

How can I see the top-ranked IMDb movies beyond the top 250? [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Dec 8, 2008 - 2 answers

How do they rank how popular a website is? Which one of the services is the most accurate between Alexa, Quantcast, Hitwise, Compete, Google, etc...?
posted by shshao on May 20, 2008 - 3 answers

Why does the person who sobs and complains loudly about how they think they "failed" every test and that they are doing/did "horribly" in school (but ends up being #1) bother me so? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 19, 2008 - 41 answers

I once read a book about a couple of autograph hounds who ranked celebrities by their willingness to meet with fans and sign autographs. If this system were ported to the web and opened to the public, allowing anyone who's had contact with a celebrity to rank their experience, how could you validate that the encounter actually happened? [more inside]
posted by bjork24 on Dec 24, 2007 - 5 answers

I need a piece of software or a web application that will help me track a URL's performance relative to specific keywords over time. [more inside]
posted by aebaxter on Feb 19, 2007 - 3 answers

Looking for an advice on ranking general surgery residencies, specifically University of Pittsburgh vs University of Michigan vs Yale; and UMDNJ New Brunswick vs University of Connecticut vs Brown. Can you suggest any pros or cons to help me rank them? [more inside]
posted by banderivec on Feb 4, 2007 - 7 answers

How does a website get to be ranked on the first page for searching on google, yahoo, etc? [more inside]
posted by Gankmore on Feb 3, 2007 - 11 answers

In a ranking system, when you have multiple items with similar rankings, how can you give more weight to those with the most votes? [more inside]
posted by bjork24 on Nov 18, 2006 - 14 answers

Where can I find numbers of downloads for, say, the top 100 most downloaded podcasts?
posted by davebug on Mar 21, 2006 - 6 answers

StatsFilter: How to analyze a set of ranking data? [more inside]
posted by GuyZero on Mar 6, 2006 - 8 answers

How do I create an accurate and fair Top 100 list from people voting? [more inside]
posted by meech on Jun 21, 2005 - 12 answers

A friend of mine has a little page where he sells books and stuff. He says it used to come up in Google, but no more. Yahoo finds it. It's a free site that came with his internet account, I think. Why did Google lose it? Is it just that Google is blocking these personal sites from this provider, cox.net?
posted by wsg on May 6, 2005 - 5 answers

Yahoo! Japan search rankings - can you pay to improve your ranking? At work, we have been asked by one of our representative offices in Japan to pay AUD1,126.00 to boost our search rankings, but I am very skeptical of the truth in this. I have spoken to a couple of Japanese people (including one of our staff members) who use Yahoo! Japan's search engine a lot and they confirm that it is possible to pay a fee to improve rankings of a site. Can anyone definitely confirm or deny this? If it does improve our ranking, it would be worth paying, but I can't help feeling it is a scam.
posted by dg on Mar 3, 2004 - 4 answers