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PageRank is only interesting to people who do not understand it.
by brk 17y ago
PageRank is only interesting to people who do not understand it.
- amichail 17y agoCould you elaborate? Do you disagree that using it in social news sites would result in an improvement?
- brk 17y agoYes, I disagree, but let's approach this from a different angle. What do YOU think is so unique and valuable about pagerank and its applicability to social news sites? From where I sit, it's just an algorithm to spit out a relative 1-10 ranking of a given pages authority.
- amichail 17y agoYou can use it to compute the importance of submissions and users in a way that is less susceptible to manipulation. Submissions by more important users would themselves be more important before anyone else votes on them.