Matt Ball Web Cred Rankings, May 2008

Here is the May 2008 ranking of the most popular people named "Matt Ball" or "Matthew Ball", based on a weighted average of search engine rankings considering the chance of a user clicking the link. This system is called "Web Cred", and is described after the lists.

Without further ado, here are the results:

Top 6 Web Cred results for "Matt Ball"

1. 54.8%: Mac Coder and Icon Designer
2. 26.2%: Professional Skateboarder
3. 9.64%: Cryptography/Security Consultant
   
4. 1.73%: Newsvine User
5. 1.23%: V1 Magazine Owner
6. 0.75%: Vegan
7. Others from popular sites that don't have useful content
   

Top Web Cred results for "Matthew Ball"

1. 44.3%: Boogie Woogie Kid Jazz Pianist
2. 13.7%: Trombonist in Quartet
3. 13.4%: Magazine Design Consultant
4. 7.60%: Mac Coder and Icon Designer
5. 3.08%: Professional Skateboarder
6. 2.25%: Cryptography/Security Consultant
7. 1.99%: Soccer Player
8. 1.85%: Random Blogger
9. 1.50%: Lawyer with K. L. Gates
   
10. 1.23%: Utah Lawyer

The "Web Cred" ranking is created by looking at the top five search sites (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, AOL, and Ask), searching for the key word, and awarding a percentage based on the probability of a user clicking on a link relating to a given name. Here is the table (based on the leaked information from AOL in 2006):

Rank/Chance of click
1: 42%
2: 12%
3: 8.50%
4: 6%
5: 5%
6: 4%
7: 3.50%
8: 3%
9: 3%
10: 3%
11+: 10%

Each click is also weighed by the search engine market share (April 2008):

Google: 61.6%
Yahoo: 20.4%
Microsoft: 9.1%
AOL LLC: 4.6%
Ask Net: 4.3%