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[akkartik]

I don't follow. Wasn't Larry Page the inventor of PageRank? And didn't he make it while still at Stanford?

[nostrademons → akkartik]

I'm saying that PageRank isn't the ranking edge that Google is famous for, and that if you applied the ranking algorithm as invented by Larry and Sergey to the web (even the web at the time, before everyone started to game Google), it would suck. It might suck a bit less than AltaVista, which was why they got funded, but it's not at all the quality that people have come to associate with Google.

[akkartik → nostrademons]

Ah. When you say 'the edge Google is famous for' I think of PageRank.

[nostrademons → akkartik]

Exactly.

[swah → nostrademons]

I think folks enjoy thinking that something they can also understand (like PageRank) was the reason Google was successful...