Re: Solomon''s curse and search Bias

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 15:05 -0600, Thad Guidry wrote:
> Hi Paola,
> 
> You'll need to guide Google, or any search engine a bit more.
> PageRank is based on popularity in general (less linking = less
> popular)

Probably worth noting that Google hasn't really used "pagerank" as per
the original paper for i think over a decade.

For a long time it was one of over 200 factors in search ranking, but
it gradually got de-emphasized, not least because it was very
susceptible to external manipulation.

Or so they say.

Liam


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