No way! I think Ford cheated.
Actually, maybe one could deduce the transitive weight to Gerald now that
he's been replace. Assume Ford just managed to beat out Gerald:
FordLinks = GeraldLinks * (TransitiveWeight * ValidatorLinks)
TransitiveWeight = FordLinks / (GeraldLinks*ValidatorLinks)
So we can see that if someone has 3 times the number of links as you, it
doesn't matter if there's a site behind you with 26 times the number of your
opponent <smile> (Though validator doesn't link directly to the
impressive.net page, so the calculation would be further screwified...)
At 14:32 2/2/2001 -0500, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
>The recent displacement of Gerald Oskoboiny from the number one slot
>on
http://www.google.com/search?q=gerald by some upstart US president
>has created the need for a new mailing list "fogf". I suggest everyone
>join this list to be in the new in crowd.
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