Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019)
by TrueDuality on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:07AM
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I never thought about "brand power" being a metric but that definitely makes sense. I'd be very curious to see what search results would look like if that weight was inverted (more "brand power" the lower the rank). I don't think it would be _better_ but it might make exploring lesser known bits of the internet more accessible.
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Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019)
by tyingq on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:11AM
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Google was more cagey about Vince and brand power than they were about other updates. The popular theory was that there was some hand-picked set of "popular brand urls" and that pagerank flowing from those had more weight (beyond the already heavy weight they would have because of their link graph).