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0 pointsjjordan7y ago0 comments

Isn't that exactly what PageRank was designed to handle? None of these spammer sites should have any actual positive reputation.

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rhizome7y ago· 1 in thread

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a network of non-phone sites linking to them that juice their PR. Like I surmised: it's a broad-based strategy.

Google has cycle detection in PageRank specifically for this reason? They know which regions of the graph are good ones.

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