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Search Engine Results Relatively Fair

Posted by Zonk on from the feel-the-love dept.

perkr writes "The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines. Based on an analysis of Web traffic and topology, this result contradicts the widely held 'Googlearchy' hypothesis according to which search engines amplify the rich-get-richer dynamics of the Web."

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  1. This just in by Frankie70 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Search Engines give new pages a greater chance to be discovered

    This just in - Yellow Pages give new businesses a greater chance to be
    discovered.

  2. Re:What is this? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny
    Some kind of cypher communication, using /. as a way to exchange data pretty anonymously?

    It looks more like something which is trying to look like a cypher. The repeated blocks are redundant, nothing more.

    Perhaps it is a social experiment, designed to draw out paranoid theories.

    (Accepts pat on tinfoil hatted head)

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