Google Top Ten Search for "powered by"

An interesting observation by Evan Williams for the search term "powered by" (with quotes) in Google. The search will pull up results that mostly contain the term in the anchor text of links pointing to the sites (view the cache version of the pages to see this).



Anchor text is one of the most powerful ranking factors at Google. The results are a pretty good gauge of how many pages are powered by certain software or services. Of course, pages with higher PageRank could influence the list and not just the brute strength method.



The top ten, at the time of this post, are:

1. Apache.org
   
   
2. MySQL.com
   
   
3. PHP.net
   
   
4. Blogger.com
   
   
5. Bravenet.com
   
   
6. FreeBSD.org
   
   
7. ListBot.com
   
   
8. RedHat.com
   
   
9. RingSurf.com
   
   
10. Linux.org
    
    

Surprisingly, Google.com did not make the cut. It came in at #14.



Your results may vary, depending on your location. Evan actually had Apache, Blogger and MySQL in the top three.