Free ranking software for linux

RankQuest SEO Tools aims to help Web masters in search engine optimization. RankQuest SEO Tools is Keyword Finder and Meta Tag Analyzer are among the most important tools for SEO. Keyword Finder lists the keywords in the meta keyword tag of a site.

Meta Tag Analyzer examines the meta information of a site and tells you if the content is search engine friendly or not. Many search engines uses the details in the meta tag for ranking purpose, so this tag must be effectively analyzed for improvement in ranking.

Statistics::RankOrder contains algorithms for determining overall rankings from a panel of judges.

SYNOPSIS

use Statistics::RankOrder;

my $r = Statistics::RankOrder->new();

$r->add_judge( [qw( A B C )] );
$r->add_judge( [qw( A C B )] );
$r->add_judge( [qw( B A C )] );

my %ranks = $r->mean_rank;
my %ranks = $r->trimmed_mean_rank(1);
my %ranks = $r->median_rank;
my %ranks = $r->best_majority_rank;

This module offers algorithms for combining the rank-ordering of candidates by a panel of judges. For the purpose of this module, the term "candidates" means candidates in an election, brands in a taste-test, competitors in a sporting event, and so on. "Judges" means those rank-ordering the candidates, whether these are event judges, voters, etc. Unlike "voting" algorithms (e.g. majority-rule or single-transferable-vote), these algorithms require judges to rank-order all candidates. (Ties may be permissible for some algorithms).

Algorithms included are:

Lowest-Mean
Trimmed-Lowest-Mean
Median-Rank
Best-of-Majority

In this alpha version, there is minimal error checking. Future versions will have more robust error checking and may have additional ranking methods such as pair-ranking methods.

The key to success for a web site is good search engine ranking. All of the major search engines use link popularity to determine how well a site will rank - so the more high quality, relevant links that lead to your site, the higher it will rank. LinkMachine makes it easy to get the links you need by helping you establish hundreds of quality, relevant link exchanges.
LinkMachine will help you:
- Climb to the top of the search engines
- Gain quality links to your site today
- Automate your link management
- Uncover exactly how to beat your top competitors
- Attract thousands more targeted visitors to your site
The most effective way to interest webmasters in linking to your site is by offering to exchange reciprocal links. This is a win-win situation - both of your web sites benefit from new targeted, relevant links.
LinkMachine project helps you build as large a reciprocal link program as youd like. Search engines see all of the new links pointing from other quality, relevant sites to your site, and increase your rank. Note that this is very different from using indiscriminate "link farms", which will give you no advantage with the search engines.
Google recently revealed the secrets of its search ranking technology by filing a patent application. What we found out is that Google values organic link building - link building that progresses naturally rather than appearing artificial. LinkMachine is the ideal tool for building link exchanges the way Google likes them.
LinkMachines InstantLinks system and link search tools allow you to grow your link exchanges gradually and gain links from many different sites. And with LinkMachines Alternate Profiles feature, you can easily benefit from having the links to your site use a diverse variety of anchor text.

Terrier project is a probabilistic Java toolkit for building search engines.
Terrier is software for the rapid development of Web, intranet, and desktop search engines.
More generally, it is a modular platform for building large-scale information retrieval applications, providing indexing and probabilistic retrieval functionalities.
It comes with a desktop search application.
Terrier has various cutting-edge features including parameter-free probabilistic retrieval approaches (such as Divergence from Randomness models), automatic query expansion/re-formulation methodologies, and efficient data compression techniques.
Terrier comes with a powerful proof-of-concept Desktop search application [Screenshots], and full TREC capabilities including the ability to index, query and evaluate the standard TREC collections, such as AP, WSJ, WT10G, .GOV and .GOV2.
Terrier is written in Java [Requirements] and has been successfully used for adhoc retrieval, Web search and cross-language retrieval, in a centralised or distributed setting.
Currently, it is also being used for running various applications.
Main features:
- Open Source (Mozilla Public Licence)
- Written in cross-platform Java
- Highly compressed disk data structures.
- Handling large-scale document collections.
- Direct file for efficient query expansion.
- Modular and open indexing and querying APIs.
- Testbed for indexing and retrieval from standard TREC test collections.
- Interactive querying application.
- Desktop search application for searching various types of documents.
- Input/output of gamma, unary and binary encoded integers for compressing streams or random access files.
- Standard evaluation of TREC ad-hoc and known-item search retrieval results.
- Indexing of tagged document collections, as well as documents of various formats, such as HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.
- Indexing of field information.
- Indexing of position information on a word, or a block level.
- Support for classic retrieval models, such as tf-idf, BM25 and Ponte-Croft language model, and Rocchios query expansion.
- Provides a number of Divergence From Randomness (DFR) document ranking models.
- Provides a number of parameter-free DFR term weighting models for automatic query expansion.
- Advanced query language that supports AND/NOT operators, phrase and proximity search.
- Flexible processing of terms through a pipeline of components, such as stop-words removers and stemmers.
Enhancements:
- This is a major update with improvements in indexing and retrieval functionalities, including faster indexing and retrieval, and new retrieval models (including models from Divergence from Randomness and Language modeling).
- It has support for much larger collections of documents, including TREC GOV2 collections (25M documents), merging of indices, and multi-lingual and non-English collections of documents.
- The documentation has been vastly improved.

Tournament Pool and Bracket Tracker is a Java Servlet based generic game tournament pool bracket tracking application suitable especially for the NCAA basketball championship tournament.
Features include bracket entering, multiple scoring systems, multiple users, groups, pools, etc.
Tournament Pool and Bracket Tracker contains everything you need to run a tournament pool.
It supports small groups or organizations who wish to provide an NCAA basketball tournament pool without a lot of administrative work in registering users or in calculating up-to-date results and possibilities.
Though it was built with the NCAA "March Madness" tournaments in mind, it should be able to handle other sport tournament pools that use straight forward brackets.
As an administrator, you will first log into the system like any other user. Any user can create a group and aministrate their own pool. A group is a set of players that play together in any number of pools.
Pool adminstrators can choose from many different scoring systems. Scoring systems can be set up dynamically in the database. When you set up a group, you have a choice. Either you can tell the users about the pool, and have them register, then notify you. You would then add the users to the group manually. This keeps membership totally within your control.
However, you can also create an invitation code. Youll then have an link to the system with that invitation code embedded. You can send this link to your users. When they click the link and login (with a possible detour through registration), they will be automatically added to your group.
They can then create their bracket and add it to a pool without your direct involvement. You do risk that the email gets circulated to others and people you dont intend to enter your group do.
Players can create as many brackets as they like, name them, leave them unfinished, come back to them later, etc. Players can add a bracket to a pool once the bracket is finished either from the bracket interface page or from the pool interface page.
Once a tournament is underway, users can keep track of their progress as the administrator for a tournament updates the results of games. Tournaments results are updated by the administrator with the same interface players use to enter their brackets.
Players are prevented from editing their brackets once it has been added to a pool that has a tournament underway. Tournament administrators can delegate the duty of keeping game results up to date to others if they arent going to be around for some of the games via a simple interface.
This allows players to come into the system regularly during the tournament and check their results and the standings much quicker than your typical spreadsheet based systems. If something is updated wrong, the players will keep you honest. The results show current, remaining, and maximum available points.
Any user can inspect the other players brackets in the pool. The brackets are presented with good picks in the green and bad picks in the red.
Version restrictions:
- Right now, all of the bracket, tournament, and teams setup is done via SQL scripts. I typically am working on the scripts the night they are announced. The priority list for the user interface work so far has been first to make the player experience nice, second to make the in-tournament administration nice, and only third to make the tournament setup nice. Hopefully by the time March 2006 rolls around this third area will be improved.
- At this point the bracket system wont handle highest seed meets lowest seed type of brackets. Unfortunately, this rules out using this system for the NFL Playoffs for the time being. Ive been working on this, but it is hard nut to crack.
Installation:
- Install MySQL and Tomcat
- Put the tournament.war file in the tomcat webapps folder.
- To get the database ready, run the following commands from the mysql.exe tool in the following order:
. [path]configdb.sql
. [path]configncaa.sql
. [path]configncaa-teams.sql
. [path]configncaa-2004.sql (optional)
. [path]configacc.sql (optional)
. [path]configacc-2005.sql (optional)
. [path]configncaa-2005.sql
You need to grant privileges in mysql as well:
GRANT ALL PRIViLEGES ON *.* TO testuser@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY testpw WITH GRANT OPTION;
Make some tweaks to the [tomcat home]/conf/web.xml file. Uncomment the following:
< !-- The invoker servlet -->
< servlet>
< servlet-name>invoker
< servlet-class>
org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet
< /servlet-class>
< init-param>
< param-name>debug
< param-value>0
< /init-param>
< load-on-startup>2
< /servlet>
and
< !-- The mapping for the invoker servlet -->
< servlet-mapping>
< servlet-name>invoker
< url-pattern>/servlet/*
< /servlet-mapping>
This enables the autoinvoker servlet, which maps from URLs to class names which happen to be J2EE servlet classes. Some people consider this a security risk, which is why it is disabled by default. Ive never had an issue so long as I know all of the servlet classes I have in the system. This can be changed. If you consider it an issue, let me know via a feature request.
- Start MySQL and Tomcat
- Go to http://localhost:8080/tournament/
Enhancements:
- This release adds many new options for the tournament pool administrator.
- You can do tie breakers, not show the players brackets to each other until the tournament starts, limit the number of brackets per player, and run a pool starting later in a tournament, such as starting at the Sweet 16.
- There is also a new interface for setting the start date and time of the tournament, sorting enhancements, the ability to edit pool settings, ranking the brackets of a running pool, and players may reset their passwords.

Waterstorm is a fast paced 2D multiplayer shooter.

The waiting has found its ending: Rarebytes newest incarnation, Waterstorm, a fast paced 2D multiplayer shooter, goes beta. Players from around the world can measure up against each other in a sophisticated ranking system and team up as clans.

A massive variety of sub marines and weaponry rock the boat in Waterstorm. Subaqueous battles with jaw-dropping graphics guaranteed and free of charge!

You can dive into the world of Waterstorm using Linux, Mac OS or Windows.