del.icio.us is showing us right now what the power of an authoritative domain, together with internal linkjuice can do to your site. More and more, I see del.icio.us ranking for pretty cool queries with their “url” pages.
For example, see these results for [iphone css3]: 
The title of that page is pretty bad of course, but its got a nice set of links from within the site, almost all of them with good anchor text. Is this a good result though? I don’t think so. The first result is actually the del.icio.us page for result #3, John Allsopp’s westciv.com CSS3 Iphone Tests.
The del.icio.us page purely outranks it on internal link juice, and because it links to westciv.com with a nofollow. Google is doing a pretty bad job here though, because they’re not using the del.icio.us data. Yahoo! seems to be doing a better job:
Live too has westciv.com as #1. Personally, I think Google would be better of if they decided not to rank any del.icio.us/url/ results, and instead focussed on trying to use that data, even though it’s not their own (but they can spider it…), to rank pages better.
Guess who is ranking on the fourth place now…LOL
Nicely done Joost.
Hehe I see my link has done what it should do too, westciv is now #1.
That’s funny.
Here in the US the link of westciv is still at #3 with deli.cio.us on #1 & #2
Yeah I see indeed :) so much for geo targeting :P the link above is targeted to the serp for the US btw.
Yeah, I saw that. But I guess the Dutch vs. US IP address does the trick
Yeah it does, without the &gl=us, westciv is on top for me, I don’t know how this particular case of geo-targeting is better for the user though :)