From: Dan Fabulich (dfab@cinenet.net)
Date: Thu Jul 31 1997 - 08:21:26 MDT
At 09:51 PM 7/30/97 -0700, Anton Sherwood wrote:
>Um, I don't get it. How does an "anchor description" (whatever that is)
>amount to a rating?
Again from their web site:
"As an example of how Hyperlink Vector Voting works, consider the web site
of the Kelley Blue Book car pricing service. Hundreds of web authors have
established hyperlinks to this popular site. They each describe the link
in their own way. Examples of descriptions (anchor text) of hyperlinks
pointing to the site are:
Kelly Blue Book [note popular misspelling of "Kelley"]
Check the value of the vehicle you own or want
Used car bluebook values [note misspelling of "blue book" as one word]
New and used car dealer prices
Kelley's Blue Book
Automobile prices
Used car values
Used car pricing
New car cost
Automotive bluebooks
According to the Hyperlink Vector Voting algorithm, each of these
descriptions constitute an opinion, or vote, as to what the referred page
is about. The more popular any particular description for a site, the more
votes it gets -- and thus the more weight it receives in the Hyperlink
Search Engine. A search on the misspelled "Kelly bluebook" will correctly
return the Kelley site with a strong score, because other web authors used
the same misspellings to describe the site!"
Anyway, the algorithm is almost secondary... Go TRY it. It's surprisingly
good.
-WHEN YOUR ONLY TOOL IS A HAMMER-
-EVERY PROBLEM STARTS TO LOOK LIKE A NAIL-
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