Yeah, no.
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ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 9 months agoSort of, I don’t know enough (or think I know enough) to speak to the specifics of the PageRank system stuff, which is why I glossed over it. From personal experience with however it works, earlier or now, I’ve not really felt like it suited the way I wanted to search for things, nor allowed for it.
On a really basic level I gather it was (and may still be) related to how often some sites were linked to from other sites, with some extra background weighting this way or that to help surface presumably relevant results. To put it crudely, sort of a popularity contest, give or take the weighting details. That tends to suck though for new or less popular/obscure stuff, the latter of which I tend to prefer (unintentionally, but somewhat intentionally).
Arrakis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fumbles@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can’t say I don’t know enough and then critique a system.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You absolutely can. I did, and plenty of other people do all the time about a variety of systems, search engines included. That’s not to say they’ll be good critiques, but that’s irrelevant to whether or not they can.
And in that vein, I’m not suggesting mine is a good critique. However it is reflective of my opinions from my experience with their system and my admittedly rough knowledge of it at the time of writing. Instead of adding to dismissive replies, how about we all get together and read the PageRank wikipedia page and learn together.
Arrakis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Usually people educate themselves on a topic before trying to talk about it as if they have a clue.
“But this is just, like, my opinion bro”
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We’re not in /c/technology or a tech themed instance, it’s a showerthought post (so the vibe should be casual), maybe learn to read a room?