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It even leads to funny situations sometimes : https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/1225783057917063169 https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/1225783057917063169

• kevingadd 6y ago
  To be fair, I think pagerank would naturally end up putting those results on top, since gmaps is the mapping service lots of people are linking to - especially if you're linking to a saved route or location, it's going to be a url to the google maps service as a whole that probably boosts its pagerank. It's definitely not a clear-cut "they decided to do this" scenario like the infoboxes and such that the article is complaining about.
  • wolco 6y ago
    PageRank wasn't natural. Google properities started with a score of 10. Google friends 5-9. Your site 0.
    • harshitaneja 6y ago
      Source?
      • wolco 6y ago
        Lived through it. Microsoft had a 9. Anything list on the dmoz had a 4. Page Rank doesn't work if the seeded values are all set to 0. If everyone started at 0 they pass on nothing. Google needed a way to seed. They assigned the highest value to themselves scaling down to other giants, universities, dmoz sites, etc. Pagerank is a reputation calculator. You still need to define at least one cool person. Much better with thousands to varying degrees.