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You've essentially described pagerank. Pagerank's patent just expired. Hopefully, that means it will start appearing in wikis.
by ebiester 9y ago
You've essentially described pagerank. Pagerank's patent just expired. Hopefully, that means it will start appearing in wikis.
- mvindahl 9y agoYeah, I probably did. The "personal filter bubble" thing is very much how google does it. I don't know the details about pagerank but I imagine that they are constantly tweaking their secret sauce to increase revenue and that they would rather keep the juicy parts secret than having them described in details in a patent. Also, I'd imagine that other search engines, such as Bing, have developed similar algorithms although I'm sure thay take great care not to infringe upon the pagerank patent. Disclaimer: Purely conjecture on my part. No particular knowledge of patent law, and only a high level understanding of the pagerant algorithm.