SEO question...
 

I could be wrong about this, but it would seem like Google sees particular pages in 2 ways - general weight/authority (PageRank) + its relevance/authority for the term being searched.

Is the order in which pages come up under a "site:siteURL.com" search basically an indication of the order of general weight/authority Google sees the pages of the site? Was just wondering because on one site I've got, I have subpages targeted to particular terms, and I happened to notice that the one that seems to have been getting the best rankings for its term (with relation to the strength of the term/the traffic coming in from it) was 2nd to the home page in the order and thought there might be some correlation.

I don't think Google would do that.

I wouldn't either but compelled to ask given what I saw. Anyone who knows?

That second page was probably more relevant to the search request than the index page is/was... check your page content to be sure.

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Er, the search request is simply site:sitedomain.com. Index is going to come up first every time when you do that, but I'm asking if the order of pages that come AFTER that has any pattern.

My index page is much higher than anything else for the primary keyword (wordA for reference sake). The 2nd page coming up is ranking highly for its term (which is wordB wordA). Other pages are ranking fine too but the most traffic besides the index page is coming from that 2nd page's ranking, and my conjecture was that perhaps they order the pages from that query by overall weight/authority, which is basically what pagerank is supposed to be.

But I'm not really into SEO so wanted to see if someone who knows more may know for sure if there's any pattern to the order the site's pages come up for site:sitedomain.com.

Edit: One thing I notice is that it seems if it's done on a site like GFY, recent threads will come up. So I guess wouldn't be in order of simply pagerank/juice a page has. It would seem Google is trying to put more emphasis on recent or oft-updated pages, which makes sense since that's how Twitter search has gotten so popular.

AH k gotcha ... the results will be in most clicked-to order. However recent real-time search changes will probably fuck with that in the next few months though it's not clear exactly how.

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I don't think so, I think the order is random.

You can check the pr rank for each one and most likely it would not be exact.

But I definably agree with your first statement: