It turns out you can skew PageRank to heavily bias toward a certain subset of pages. It's even suggested in the original PR article. So I set it to skew toward personal blogs. The result is kinda amazing.

4 years ago · 👍 mntn, moddedbear, kevinsan, eldersnake, aaron

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@marginalia This is awesome! Very impressed. · 4 years ago

@aaron https://search.marginalia.nu/ -- pick "blogocentric pagerank" · 4 years ago

Where can I try this out? · 4 years ago

@kevinsan Can't take any responsibility for that unfortunately :P It really feels like I'm inching closer and closer to the goal with this project. · 4 years ago

Tried it this morning. I agree, the results are very good. A huge win, except for my housework which is a couple of hours behind. · 4 years ago

Saw your blog on this, looking forward to trying it out. Sounds like a great adaptation of this research. I bet there's other research out of Big Tech that would be useful if applied in a non-evil way. · 4 years ago