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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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Autores principales: Masterton, George, Olsson, Erik J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6275164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30761370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00978