Google (PageRank) based ranking of CS schools

Another pseudo-scientific source of CS school rankings is best paper awards at academic conferences. The list tightly matches the U.S. news rankings but not the Google rankings in the article.<p>1) Carnegie Mellon University<p>2) University of Washington<p>2) Stanford University<p>4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology<p>5) University of California Berkeley<p>6) Cornell University<p>7) University of Toronto<p>8) University of Texas at Austin<p>8) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<p>10) University of British Columbia<p>source: <a href="http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html" rel="nofollow">http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html</a><p>PS: The linked article is misleading, as "PageRank" is only one of hundreds of signals Google uses for ranking. I originally thought the article's ranking uses the links between schools, but it doesn't. It would be more accurate to simply call it a Google search result ranking.

Google no longer uses pagerank for thir rankings. They take into account many factors including your IP address, your location, etc so the ranking that the author sees is likely different from the ranking anyone else sees.

How exactly does PageRank correlate to any measure of quality for a school? I see no description of methodology other than "we typed it into Google." Why is a Google search ranking relevant?

Is the phrase "Computing Science" only in use outside of the US, then?<p>It seems to be in common usage in Canada (it's what my alma mater called the department) and seemingly at least parts of the UK (as at the University of Glasgow), and is definitely used to mean what is meant by Computer Science in the US, as distinct from Computational Science.

Well that's interesting. I got a CS degree from U Mass. Cool to see it at the top of the list (3rd and 4th) :)<p>(Any other UMass Amherst CS Alums here?)

This is a ranking of SEOs of CS schools rather than overall quality of the institutions that 'US News' ranking is trying to capture.

I'm pretty sure this is for amusement only. Remzi (a well known researcher in file systems) is also quite humorous.