On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Gio & Voy Wiederhold <[email protected]>wrote:
> There was no google before page rank. There were many other search > engines. Altavista was the most successful one. It relied on keywords and > was blown out of the water by Google. Yahoo at that time relied on > manually constructed hierarchies which did not scale with the growth of the > Internet. > Gio > > Sent from my iPhone > http://infolab.stanford.edu/people/gio.html > > > On Mar 13, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Carlos AB <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't know that pagerank was made to get google away from using > keywords. I thought that maybe it could be still used with a really low > level of importance, but still holding some relevance. > > What Lars said and after reading a couple of articles I now understand > fully that it is not as important as way back in google history. > > Keyword stuffing was the name coined at the technique that used keywords > in a way it was not intended. > > Well, now I know. > > Thank you for your reply. > > CarlosAB > > CarlosAB > > > 2013/3/13 Gio Wiederhold <[email protected]> > >> The whole idea of pagerank was to get away from keywords, which prior >> seaach engines depended on and which were widely faked. >> Read the paper on it. >> Counting words is too primitive - then larger files would be better ... >> Lars advice is wise, quality is preferable to noise. >> >> Gio >> > -- Gio Wiederhold infolab.stanford.edu/people/gio.html
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