Nina wrote:
Hi. What did you do? Pretend I'm, like, eight
and/or stupid (because on
this I are pretty stoopid).
Once upon a time, websites were written and maintained by
individuals, or by relatively small, closely-knit groups of people.
Once upon a time, and indeed even to this day, there has always
been a need to try to figure out how "good" a website is. Now,
of course, "goodness" is a terribly subjective and multifaceted
concept, so trying to reduce it to a unidimensional metric or
"rank" is a task fraught with peril and ultimately utterly
impossible, but the need is strong enough that people are bound
to try anyway. One area in which the need is real is: ranking
search results. It's (comparatively) very easy to write a web
search engine that returns links to every single page where a
user's search terms are mentioned. It's much, much more
difficult, however, to rig it up so that the user can easily zero
in on the *interesting* or *useful* links first, without having
to wade through all of the hundreds or thousands or millions of
hits which a simpleminded brute-force search engine might yield.....
That's like, deep. Thanks.
Well I think it's a good idea. In this weird way, the nofollow tag even
supports Wikipedia's NPOV policy - if you look at it the right way. I tried
to remove spam once and removed too much. It's hard to tell what's spam and
what isn't in some articles.
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Sincerely,
Nina
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and
conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work." - Abdul Kalam