Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition
by PaulHoule on Saturday January 04, 2014 @12:21PM
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The scientific literature shows that PageRank is not as good as it is cracked up to be, particularly with the TREC style of evaluation.
The issue is that PageRank is a general factor which doesn't have much to do with the question of ("is page A relevant for topic B?") If PageRank causes a popular but irrelevant page to rank above an unpopular but relevant page it is part of the problem, not the solution.
The issue is that PageRank is a general factor which doesn't have much to do with the question of ("is page A relevant for topic B?") If PageRank causes a popular but irrelevant page to rank above an unpopular but relevant page it is part of the problem, not the solution.