Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook...
by fizx on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:49PM
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> I'm not sure I want search results to be littered with tweets.
Granted. I hope they find balance, and imagine they'll AB test to see what users want.
> How do you apply page rank/relevance etc to 140 chars?
Some combination of freshness, quantity of retweets, pagerank of any linked pages, bit.ly stats on links, historic tweet quality of the user, similarity to trending topics, follower count of user, follower/followee ratio, incoming links to the page from blogs, etc, etc, etc.
Granted. I hope they find balance, and imagine they'll AB test to see what users want.
> How do you apply page rank/relevance etc to 140 chars?
Some combination of freshness, quantity of retweets, pagerank of any linked pages, bit.ly stats on links, historic tweet quality of the user, similarity to trending topics, follower count of user, follower/followee ratio, incoming links to the page from blogs, etc, etc, etc.