Re: [EM] Search Engines & Election Methods?

2004-05-07 Thread Forest Simmons
You might be interested in a paper entitled "Rank Aggregation Revisited," on this topic. A google search for it will easily turn up pdf copies, for example at http:\\faculty.cs.tamu.edu/klappi/311/dwork.pdf This is the article that introduced me to the "local kemenization" that I have alluded to

[EM] Search Engines & Election Methods?

2004-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed something recently: more websites are explicitly listing the URL of another page, rather than linking to the page itself. In part, I believe they're doing this to avoid increasing the ranking of the mentioned website on search engines such as Google, which use linking structure to de