💾 Archived View for midnight.pub › replies › 5198 captured on 2023-01-29 at 07:01:22. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

< WIP search engine

Parent

~tetris

I say leave pagerank out of it, otherwise desperate people will link across these small communities like crazy to inflate their discoverability.

I think the most fair[1] thing you could do is a random ranking, and print the seed at the top in case anyone wants to reproduce their results.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_ballot

Write a reply

Replies

~moonsheep wrote (thread):

Well to be fair PageRank was specifically designed to prevent people from doing that. Ranking algorithms before that (like the one I'm currently using) simply looked at backlinks, making it very easy to boost your capsule by writing a page chock-full of links pointing to it.