PageRank's ability to track webpage quality: reconciling Google's wisdom-of-crowds justification with the scale-free structure of the web
We address the fundamental question why we should use PageRank and similar link-based algorithms in search engines, if at all. In a legendary article from 1998, the Google founders gave an intriguing wisdom-of-crowds justification for PageRank according to which the latter tracks quality online. Thi...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Heliyon |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018340738 |