Comment by tokai
4 months ago
Page rank was inspired by bibliometrics and evaluation of science publications. It's messed up now because of the rankings. Further fiddling with ranking will not fix the problem.
4 months ago
Page rank was inspired by bibliometrics and evaluation of science publications. It's messed up now because of the rankings. Further fiddling with ranking will not fix the problem.
+1, PageRank was taken from academia. They even cited it in their original work. Funny how the origins of these things get forgotten.
Inspired by, not taken. It's a clever solution to a hard problem!
Do you remember Ask Jeeves? Dogpile? Google was an incredible improvement!