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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by dilemma on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:29PM (#11256652)
PageRank isn't transparent and objective, it is opaque and arbitrary.
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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by ArkyBeagle on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:18PM (#11260892)
PageRank is of ... anthropically/existentially significant importance to the continuation of Google as a going concern.

You can't trust people to be transparent about things that are anthropically significant and that they realize are anthropically significant. Now throw in that it's legally protected as proprietary...

It's just one of those things...

The fact that Stallman cannot or will not accept this troubles me. I view this as a mechanism for choosing continued disappointment on his part. But it does serve as part of a dialogue.

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