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Actually, link counts are pretty much worthless.

• ntoshev 19y ago
  Really? Can you say why? I haven't tried it, but link counts look like a reasonable first approximation of pagerank. I thought this is also the consensus among researchers, e.g.: http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.html http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h... http://research.microsoft.com/users/nickcr/pubs/craswell_trec02.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/users/nickcr/pubs/craswell_tre...
  • paul 19y ago
    It's easy for a low quality page to have a bunch of links. The blog post you linked is also wrong about AdWords -- the pricing model is important, but there's a lot more to it than that (which is part of the reason why Yahoo can't catch up).