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
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