|
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
From my feed reader:
Rich Skrenta weighs in with a riff on how PageRank ruined the web. It certainly made people into mindless, fawning link buyers. :( And Rich is absolutely right. A $200 billion company can hardly expect us to go around poking their garbage. Get a better algorithm, don't complain about bought links, which should have been predictable and could have been predicted by any junior economist analyzing the claim that a link had value because it was a "vote" for a page. They have had eight years to think of a way to stop the process of making a gray or black marketplace for such value. Jawboning ain't gonna do it.
For another big idea every couple of weeks, if you haven't already, check out Malcolm Gladwell's blog.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
View Posts by Category |
