Comments on: Most popular posts, continued… http://metamodern.com/2009/11/18/most-popular-posts-continued/ The Trajectory of Technology Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:14:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Knowledge about Knowledge: The most popular posts in the first year http://metamodern.com/2009/11/18/most-popular-posts-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-2147 Knowledge about Knowledge: The most popular posts in the first year Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:31:52 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=6022#comment-2147 [...] Most popular posts, continued…    Subscribe [...] [...] Most popular posts, continued…    Subscribe [...]

]]> By: Eric Drexler http://metamodern.com/2009/11/18/most-popular-posts-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-2121 Eric Drexler Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:23:42 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=6022#comment-2121 Garson, that is a good methodology, but it hasn’t given the right answer. I wish that the answer it did give were correct, because the most popular post is (unfortunately) about a topic less worthy of attention. Garson, that is a good methodology, but it hasn’t given the right answer. I wish that the answer it did give were correct, because the most popular post is (unfortunately) about a topic less worthy of attention.

]]> By: Garson http://metamodern.com/2009/11/18/most-popular-posts-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-2117 Garson Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:48 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=6022#comment-2117 I would guess that the popular post is titled <a HREF="http://metamodern.com/2009/05/10/a-dna-origami-box/" rel="nofollow">A DNA Origami Box</A>. To construct this hypothesis I typed "metamodern" into the Google search box and determined which individual article appeared near the top of the search results. Since "A DNA Origami Box" was listed second below the link to the home page of the blog I used that ranking as an admittedly flawed proxy for popularity and traffic. Originally Google used a "page rank" algorithm for ordering search results. That suggests "A DNA Origami Box" has a large number of incoming links from other highly ranked websites. However, Google has repeatedly re-tuned their algorithm. Today's algorithm may also incorporate data concerning the number of times a link is clicked when it appears in the list of search results. I would guess that the popular post is titled A DNA Origami Box.

To construct this hypothesis I typed “metamodern” into the Google search box and determined which individual article appeared near the top of the search results. Since “A DNA Origami Box” was listed second below the link to the home page of the blog I used that ranking as an admittedly flawed proxy for popularity and traffic.

Originally Google used a “page rank” algorithm for ordering search results. That suggests “A DNA Origami Box” has a large number of incoming links from other highly ranked websites. However, Google has repeatedly re-tuned their algorithm. Today’s algorithm may also incorporate data concerning the number of times a link is clicked when it appears in the list of search results.

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