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Quote: PageRank poor for common queries, good for sparse queries such as 'jaguar'; mixes different communities; promotes different pages than other search algorithms
Topic:
searching the Web
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[For queries such as "abortion", "amusement parks", "armstrong", "jaguar", "moon landing"] PageRank exhibits consistent, albeit poor, performance [22% highly relevant and 48% relevant in the first 10 hits]. … Furthermore, the PageRank algorithm is qualitatively different from … by the remaining algorithms. … [p. 286] the PageRank algorithm appears to be mixing … … [For example, PageRank] performs better than the rest of the … [PageRank had 2 and 4 highly relevant links for these queries while the others had 0 or 1 highly relevant link.] Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: searching the Web (53 items)