At 10:44 AM -0600 11/29/99, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>  > * This factor weights "importance" of pages, essentially as a ratio
>  > * between the number of links pointing to a page divided by the number
>  > * of links on the page. (The ratio helps to remove "link farms" which
>  > * often have many links to them.)
>
>Oh, is that what backlink_factor does?  I never did understand it from
>the description in attrs.html.  This explanation is much clearer.

Yes, this is the idea. I guess I need to go edit the description. :-)

-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/

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