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Quality of web pages is similar to economic models. The moment you find a model that predict web pages' quality, that model start to fail. A small percent of we
by danamit 5y ago
Quality of web pages is similar to economic models. The moment you find a model that predict web pages' quality, that model start to fail. A small percent of webmasters will be monetarily incentived enough to make most of the web point into them, the more pages they point to their websites, the more they can point into their websites using the profits they made from abusing the algorithm, until the whole model reach an equilibrium where links totally do not matter (gives a bad experience that other methods are better now).
- TheJoeMan 5y agoMaybe this could be solved through tree pruning. The backlinks would give up every one of the scammer's scummy websites no?
- danamit 5y agoNot sure what's that exactly, but whatever it is, it is the new model to beat for profit.
- brudgers 5y agoAll models are wrong, but dome models are useful. George Box. That’s my take on the article…it’s trying to be useful. Whether it succeeds is another matter. But to me there’s some potential merit in the radical conceptual reduction. Merit in thinking about the simplest thing that might work.
- danamit 5y agoI've built (back in the day) a forums search engine that utilized links count to sort results, and it was surprising how useful it was, like it made a usable search engine, not the best but usable, it felt a bit like google and less like forums search functionalities. What's unique about pagerank is that the next best improvement that will give you as much benefits would be way more complex. So yeah its simplicity is its main merit.