The Age of PageRank Is Over

Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by ryandrake on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:09PM (#33540187)

"Do you want to learn about blogspam? If so, you are on the right page. You will learn about blogspam here. One of the most major things about blogspam is that it exists on the Internet. You just learned that blogspam exists on the Internet. In this way, you have become educated about blogspam.

Now that you know about blogspam, we'll move on to the next topic: How to find blogspam. It's actually very easy to find blogspam. You are on the right page if you want to learn about finding blogspam..."

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by dpkirchner on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:09PM (#33540792)

This is also giving me Microsoft "independent advisor" vibes.

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by pjc50 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:26AM (#33544577)

This killed the blogosphere, and will kill any decentralized system that becomes popular unless they can do something extremely clever.

Instead of a dark forest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest) think of the outer internet as a fake forest. If you wander off the beaten path - the same dozen sites that everyone uses and complains about - you wander into an endless, trackless zone of fakes all of which are ultimately trying to sell you something.

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by probablypower on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:52AM (#33544759)

Thanks for the fun analogy. It is right on the money.

Made me imagine the invention of the internet as the big bang, and that now we are watching the expansion of e-space as all the useful bodies rush away from one another and the light-years of space between them is filled by a vacuum of usefulness.

Maybe one day the search for intelligent life in space will be easier than the search for intelligent life on the internet.

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by hi41 on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:22PM (#33566286)

That’s funny. Is that how pages go up in rank? Make many references to the same word and make circular arguments?!

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