Google Search Ranking Indicates FresnoStateNews.com Is One of the Web's Top Collegiate News Services

Mountain View, June 18 - An objective analysis by Google, the Web's most popular search engine, now ranks FresnoStateNews.com as one of the most important collegiate news services on the Web. 

Google uses a sophisticated analysis, called PageRank™, that ranks Web sites based on the nature and quality of links to that particular site. According to Google, "important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search."

Google reports their page ranking indicates whether people on the web consider a page to be a high-quality site worth checking out. Google itself does not evaluate or endorse websites.

FresnoStateNews.com now ranks 18th (editors note: As of Oct. 28, 2002, we have climbed to #11) in the Google analysis in the category of "College and University News Services." 

Other university Web sites on the list include: UC Berkeley, Cornell, the University of California system, the University of Connecticut, the University of Maryland and the University of Arizona, among others.

FresnoStateNews.com has been online for almost two years. Over 160,000 unique visitors have used the site since January of this year. The Web site is viewed as a primary source for news organizations and researchers about issues of importance to Central California.

The Web site specializes in information from Fresno State's "hallmark" programs, such as "the classics," agriculture, Sierra Nevada research, teacher education, business, criminal justice, water resources, San Joaquin Valley cultures and languages, and winemaking and viticulture. The site also provides information about the Save Mart Center, the largest collegiate public events facility on the West Coast, and follows important developments in the nationally ranked Fresno State athletic program.

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