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Hah. Back in 2003 I wrote: "PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to "understand"
by jzawodn 11y ago
Hah.
Back in 2003 I wrote:
"PageRank stopped working really well when people began to understand how PageRank worked. The act of Google trying to "understand" the web caused the web itself to change."
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html
It's amazing that it took this long.
- wpietri 11y agoYou might be interested in Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law A friend mention that recently to me and it was really eye-opening. Once you start looking, the pattern is everywhere.