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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by grecy on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:01PM (#20753776)
> PageRank might be better way to evaluate quality

And suddenly Google is the authoritative source on literally everything in the world. I hope you like their political views, because they would become "the one".

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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:37PM (#20754139)
Pagerank is referring to the graph algorithm known as pagerank, not anything provided specifically by Google.
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by antonvs on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:11PM (#20754283)
"PageRank" is a Google trademark, and also the subject of a patent belonging to Stanford University and licensed exclusively to Google.
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by anticensor on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:52AM (#20754650)
That patent expired.
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