Would you like to let others know about the corpora or help
develop some materials for the corpora?
Because these corpora are some
of the largest and most diverse corpora in existence (in addition to
being free!), we want
to make sure that others know about them. But for some search terms on
Google, other resources have a higher page rank than our corpora, simply
because those resources have been around for a longer time. So we'd like to help our corpora
move up the page rankings.
At Google and elsewhere, page
rankings are determined in part by how many people click on the links
for different search terms. You can help
by just clicking on a link or two. Enter a
Google search like
corpora
or corpus
or corpora
english or corpus
spanish, and if you find this page (or else one of our
corpora) listed, then click on that link. (In some cases, you might have
to go to the second or third page of links to find this site listed).
In addition, rankings at Google
and elsewhere are in
part a function of the number of links to a site. Although this might
take a minute or two, please consider creating links to this corpus on your individual or
institutional web pages. Just make sure that your page has a link to
another page that is already being indexed by Google, and then create a
link on that page to the our corpus page at:
http://corpus.byu.edu
(or one of the individual corpora).
Sometimes it takes a while to
move up the Google listings, but it looks like we're already on the
first page of links for some of these searches, and we're actually even
at the top for some of the corpora. Let's see if within a couple of months
more we can move to the
top for general searches like corpus
and corpora as well.
Thanks for your help.