Matthew Toseland wrote: > PageRank is patented, and picking a fight with Google is a bad idea > especially as they gave us 4 summer coders and $2000 last year.
Sorry, did I say PageRank? I meant eigenvector centrality. :-) See the related work section of this paper by Jon Kleinberg (who else?) - it turns out people have been calculating eigenvector centrality in social networks since at least the 70s and possibly the 50s: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.pdf I agree that it would be stupid (and ungrateful) to antagonise Google, but there seems to be plenty of prior art for using eigenvector centrality as a trust metric. I'll try to chase up the Katz, Hubbell and Pinski-Narin refs tonight. > However I do worry that once we have opennet nobody will use darknet. :| Agreed. Cheers, Michael
