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> designed only to allow the largest, well-known of publishers in. This seems like one effective method to combat fly-by-night "publications" that exist to spr

> designed only to allow the largest, well-known of publishers in. This seems like one effective method to combat fly-by-night "publications" that exist to spread falsehoods. It's warfare. Also this seems like it's somewhat in line with the original idea behind PageRank. But yes I would believe that it comes with drawbacks.

kortilla 8y ago
The original idea behind PageRank had nothing to do with well known or name brands. That’s precisely the crap that other “home pages” were based on that google disrupted.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  So true, Google's raison d'etre then wasn't "make money".