Comments on: Do search engine results accurately indicate online influence?

By: kristen54

kristen54 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:18:56 +0000

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By: DormRoomGear

DormRoomGear — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:38:38 +0000

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By: Stephen Pierzchala

Stephen Pierzchala — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:32 +0000

Mark: TinyURL is becoming bad at mangling URLs. Try http://bit.ly/3EquWH and you will end up where you need to go.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:06:26 +0000

Hi Stephen, there's a problem with the TinyURL you provided to Deragon's article – I get an error page instead.

Google Page Rank is a potential (and incomplete) measure of influence to outsiders or strangers, but I tend to agree that there are other aspects which need to be considered.

By: Stephen Pierzchala

Stephen Pierzchala — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:42:13 +0000

I have been discussing exactly the opposite of what Rubel's thesis is - influence is not related to PageRank. This is especially true in social media.

PageRank is an excellent way to gauge the influence of the information you provide. But to measure the amount of influence you have in a community or a conversation goes to an article Jay Deragon (http://tinyurl.com/4yoalt) about the effect of trust and reputation.

There is currently no algorithmic way to measure trust and reputation, and its effect on the conversations we are having.

In some respects, PageRank is an excellent way to represent the content-driven Web. It can find what a person is searching for and deliver results that match the terms of interest.

PageRank, however, cannot deliver results that match the context of the search, the conversation the searcher is seeking to join, the like-minded community the searcher seeks.

Sometimes information is not enough.