Rankings+Quest+(Matt+G.)

Overview
One definition of rankings I’ve found online is ‘ a position in a scale of achievement or status; a classification’. According to Wikipedia a [|ranking] is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second. I think when most people hear the word their fist thought goes to sports and how well their team may or may not be doing and how happy/upset they are about it. In fact, if you type ‘rankings’ into Google the first two hits both pertain to NCAA basketball. However, there are of course other types of rankings and other types of systems that use rankings to classify levels of achievement. For example the military, economies, cities and countries pertaining to quality of life and the list goes on. Colleges and preparatory schools are another big one. Many people choose or at least narrow down where they’d like to go to school based on the schools rankings. What this means for colleges across the country is that it is in their best interest to be ranked high as that would lead to more interest in their program and would support higher tuition's therefore leading to greater profits as well as the opportunity to improve the school’s program and facilities. As far as the differences between The [|Truth Laird Bear] and [|Technorati] rankings are the style in which they execute them. At the Laird Bear they have 100 blogs ranked by number as well as dividing them into three categories all of which have at most a barely noticeable negative connotation if any. The three main categories are Higher Beings, Mortal Humans and Playful Primates. However there is a sidebar with lesser sites ranked in categories with names that are much less flattering than the main three. In contrast Technorati’s initial rankings have five blogs listed as the Top Five Risers and a second column with the Top Five Failers. And above that is a tab for both the entire blog directory and next to that the Technorati TOP100. Another way in, which the two sites differ, is the type of blogs they have in their rating systems. For Laird bear, the vast majority of the blogs in their ratings system are political. On the other side of things Technorati’s rankings include celebrity and technology related news with some politics mixed in. I wasn’t able to navigate the Laird Bear page very well because a lot of the pages are apparently only viewable for members but I can say that on Technorati the site lists the rankings of the blogs they have rated on other sites, an interesting inclusion of information whereas the rankings on Laird Bear seem to be done a bit more ‘in house’. One definition of rankings I’ve found online is ‘ a position in a scale of achievement or status; a classification’. According to Wikipedia it is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second. I think when most people hear the word their fist thought goes to sports and how well their team may or may not be doing and how happy/upset they are about it. In fact, if you type ‘rankings’ into Google the first two hits both pertain to NCAA basketball. However, there are of course other types of rankings and other types of systems that use rankings to classify levels of achievement. For example the military, economies, cities and countries pertaining to quality of life and the list goes on. Colleges and preparatory schools are another big one. Many people choose or at least narrow down where they’d like to go to school based on the schools rankings. What this means for colleges across the country is that it is in their best interest to be ranked high as that would lead to more interest in their program and would support higher tuitions therefore leading to greater profits as well as the opportunity to improve the school’s program and facilities. As far as the differences between The Truth Laird Baird and Technorati rankings are the style in which they execute them. At the Laird Bear they have 100 blogs ranked by number as well as dividing them into three categories all of which have at most a barely noticeable negative connotation if any. The three main categories are Higher Beings, Mortal Humans and Playful Primates. However there is a sidebar with lesser sites ranked in categories with names that are much less flattering than the main three. In contrast Technorati’s initial rankings have five blogs listed as the Top Five Risers and a second column with the Top Five Failers. And above that is a tab for both the entire blog directory and next to that the Technorati TOP100. Another way in, which the two sites differ, is the type of blogs they have in their rating systems. For Laird bear, the vast majority of the blogs in their ratings system are political. On the other side of things Technorati’s rankings include celebrity and technology related news with some politics mixed in. I wasn’t able to navigate the Laird Bear page very well because a lot of the pages are apparently only viewable for members but I can say that on Technorati the site lists the rankings of the blogs they have rated on other sites, an interesting inclusion of information whereas the rankings on Laird Bear seem to be done a bit more ‘in house’.

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