Mr Anti-Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 29, 2002 @04:04AM from the proof-of-success dept.

MrNovember writes "Salon is running a story on some guy named Daniel Brandt who they call "Mr. Anti-Google." Mr. Brandt runs a sort of anti-establishment database of citations called NameBase as well as Google Watch. He claims that Google's PageRank system is undemocratic primarily because it doesn't rank his NameBase information very highly. He also points out that Google maintains a log of all you've ever searched for associated with a long-term cookie. Google's system seems to work the best if you ask me but, on the other hand, link popularity may not provide the most intelligent top rankings."

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Re:Gee wow by casio282 · 2002-08-29 04:11 · Score: 1, Flamebait

So this link from /. should help him out quite a bit? Hooray for everybody!

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/. seems to have it down pretty good by SprayThought · 2002-08-29 04:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

link popularity may not provide the most intelligent top rankings.

opinion popularity seems to works well within /., why can't link popularity work well for a search engine?