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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by amelius on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:25PM (#19173357)
Page rank is just one way to order pages. Another is relevance. How you combine the two ordering schemes is another big question.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by miketuritzin on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:30PM (#19173409)
Good point - pagerank is a query-independent signal which is harder to game, but the (very large) part of ranking that is query dependent was still very much gameable.
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