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|[[Anthropology]] <!--Article---> ||200707  <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Chris Day <!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||<!--Subpage rank---> || 9999<!--Category rank---> ||41 <!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||10<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> || CZ:anthropology workgroup came up #9<!--Notes--->  
|[[Anthropology]] <!--Article---> ||200707  <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Chris Day <!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||<!--Subpage rank---> || 9999<!--Category rank---> ||41 <!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||10<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> || CZ:anthropology workgroup came up #9<!--Notes--->  
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|[[Applied social sciences]] <!--Article---> ||  <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Roger Lohmann<!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||2<!--Subpage rank---> || 9999<!--Category rank---> ||15 <!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||6<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> || <!--Notes--->  
|[[Applied social sciences]] <!--Article---> ||200803 <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Roger Lohmann<!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||2<!--Subpage rank---> || 9999<!--Category rank---> ||15 <!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||6<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> || <!--Notes--->  
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|[[Henry Ford]] <!--Article---> ||200704  <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Richard Jensen <!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||<!--Subpage rank---> || <!--Category rank---> ||41<!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||10<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> ||HF's external links, and bibliography were #2 and #3 <!--Notes--->  
|[[Henry Ford]] <!--Article---> ||200704  <!--YYYYDD created---> ||Richard Jensen <!--CZ creator---> ||1<!--Article Google rank---> ||<!--Subpage rank---> || <!--Category rank---> ||41<!--Number of CZ revisions---> ||d<!--Approved or Draft?---> ||10<!--# CZ contributors (est)---> ||HF's external links, and bibliography were #2 and #3 <!--Notes--->  

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Why do CZ articles sometimes fail to appear in Google searches? I looked at various CZ articles, created at different times by different people, looked at different variables such as # revisions, # contributors, creation date (sortable format, so later dates are numerically higher). For each, I typed this into a google searchbar, putting the exact article name in quotes:

"Exact article name" citizendium

What rank did each one get? The rank is the entry number; so if it appeared on the first page in the fourth slot, it got a rank of "4"; I counted subgroups too. If it didn't appear after a page or two of searching, I put 9999 meaning I didn't find it.

My working hypothesis is: CZ's Related Article subpages CONFUSE Google's crawlers. They have trouble figuring what links to what. As a result, CZ's internal links are TOO COMPLEX and CZ's web presence is harmed as a result.


CZ article title Date created (eg 200707 = July 2007) CZ creator Article's Google rank (1=BEST) (9999=doesn't appear) Subpage's Google rank Category Google rank Number of CZ revisions approved (a) or draft (d) # CZ contributors (people) (est) Notes
Terrorism 200712 D. Matt Innis 1 9999 9999 8 a 3
Lucille Ball 200812 Paul Wormer 4 3 4 d 3
Script kiddie 201002 Thomas Wright Sulcer 9999 9999 9999 d
Dana Delany 201002 Thomas Wright Sulcer 9999 1 2 d
Lady Gaga 201002 Thomas Wright Sulcer 9999 9999 13 d 4
Bromance 201003 Thomas Wright Sulcer 9999 9999 6 d 1
Albert Einstein 200611 Nancy Sculerati MD 1 9999 42 d 17
Restructuring of the United States Army 200807 Howard C. Berkowitz 1 54 d 5
Solid harmonics 200708 Paul Wormer 1 21 22 d 3
Plane (geometry) 200703 John Roby Clayton 1 16 d 9
Gaussian elimination 200905 David E. Volk 9999 1 8 d 2 Note: this is what appeared first on google: "CZ:Core Articles > Mathematics" not the CZ article; this came third: "Talk:Gaussian elimination"
Linear algebra 200811 Barry R. Smith 1 9999 2 d 1
Cloud computing 200807 Ashwath Ravichandran 4 5 9999 117 d 6 CZ really first; three ads for CC came up first
Horticulture 200612 Nancy Sculerati MD 1 9999 13 d 7 "CZ: workgroup requests" ranks 2nd
Business 200707 Ian Johnson 3 9999 18 d 3 "CZ:Business Workgroup" was 2nd; the business article was 3rd -
Money 200706 Anthony Argyriou 3 9999 12 d 5 "Money supply" on CZ came up first, "Monetarism" came up 2nd
Truth 200805 Larry Sanger 1 9999 11 d 5 Jacques Derrida, and Aesthetics came up #2 and #3
Anthropology 200707 Chris Day 1 9999 41 d 10 CZ:anthropology workgroup came up #9
Applied social sciences 200803 Roger Lohmann 1 2 9999 15 d 6
Henry Ford 200704 Richard Jensen 1 41 d 10 HF's external links, and bibliography were #2 and #3
Nobel Prize 200810 Daniel Mietchen 1 9999 9 d 4
Norway 200705 Kjetil Ree 2 56 d 4 The Norway "Gallery" came up 1st; a collection of images about Norway.
Great Britain 200704 Richard Jensen 1 9999 39 d 6
United Kingdom 200611 Rilson Versuri 2 9999 163 d 22 What came first? "Parliament of the United Kingdom - encyclopedia article - Citizendium" Why? "Catalogs" came 3rd.
Scottish Parliament 200801 Gareth Leng 1 4 12 d 4
Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse 200805 Gareth Leng 6 4 12 7 d 2 First: Royal Mile article on CZ; second: Edinburgh (external links); third: Scottish Parliament; 4th = RP of H (related articles)
Arthur's Seat 200801 Gareth Leng 1 6 d 4 Scottish Parliament article #2; Royal Mile article #3; Arthur's Seat external links comes #7
Photosynthesis 200808 Anthony.Sebastian 1 108 d 6 Photosynthesis "Gallery" comes #2
Handyman 201002 Thomas Wright Sulcer 9999 24 d 2 CZ's Cottage industry comes 1st; Tool related articles comes #5
Guitar 200810 Kiryl Rusetski 1 9999 9999 10 d 7
Hierarchical clustering 200911 Daniel Mietchen 3 7 d 2 CZ article "Bioinformatics - encyclopedia article - Citizendium" comes 1st; the talk page of Hc comes about 8th.

Notes

NOte: after the first 5 or 10 pages of a google search, I stopped looking, and would put down "rank" as 9999, meaning "I didn't find it"

Note: CZ contributors INCLUDES bots (since a Google crawler probably can't tell the difference between a person and a bot)