[Search-l] Interesting Article

[Linas Vepstas]

2008/7/29 Gérard Dupont <ger.dupont at gmail.com>:
> I don't see the point "relevance ... based on the contents, not its
> popularity"... That's what most of the system do.

Its certainly not what page rank does. Page rank is a
pure popularity contest.  The success of  Page rank
depends on the hope that humands have previously
identified the "good pages" and made them popular.
This is also why page-rank can be fooled: use bots
and bogus web sites to create artificial "popular" pages,
and page-rank will rank them highly, even if the content sucks.

Finding some mechanism that outperforms pagerank
is no mean feat.

> and they always include a small picture. IMHO that's relevant but do anyone
> know where are those pictures from (that not thumbnail of the result neither
> a picture from the result...).

I dunno. I ego-surfed for my own name, and found pictures
of ugly people who I have never seen before.  Yechh.  How
people I've never seen before are associated with projects
I've worked on, I don't know.

--linas