The startup has since been involved in several scandals, including being temporarily demoted in Google's search results for using link spam to improve its rank, though it got much of its SEO swag back after apologizing.
Uganda has improved its ranking in the corruption index, but remains below even Africa's pretty bleak average.Most countries flail away to little effect.
Correction: December 30, 2003, Tuesday An article on Dec. 22 about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report referred imprecisely to the ratio of applicants to undergraduate openings.
An article on Dec. 22 about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report referred imprecisely to the ratio of applicants to undergraduate openings.
With the new wave of entrepreneurs, Berlin, once viewed as the poor relation to Germany's main business centers, like Frankfurt and Hamburg, is improving its ranking in the country's economic hierarchy.
Correction: December 24, 2003, Wednesday An article on Monday about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report missstated the name of a graduate student from South Korea who said she was attracted by the high rank of its social work school.
A few other countries, including Italy and Uganda, have made inroads on corruption but have by no means entirely destroyed the problem.Italy purged its political class in the legal investigations of the early 1990s, which dramatically improved its ranking in Transparency International's anti-corruption index.
Google took first, improving its ranking from 4.3 (out of a possible 5 points) to 4.6.
