How to make the top ten: Approximating PageRank from in-degree

@misc{citeulike:1315911, abstract = {PageRank has become a key element in the success of search engines, allowing to rank the most important hits in the top screen of results. One key aspect that distinguishes PageRank from other prestige measures such as in-degree is its global nature. From the information provider perspective, this makes it difficult or impossible to predict how their pages will be ranked. Consequently a market has emerged for the optimization of search engine results. Here we study the accuracy with which PageRank can be approximated by in-degree, a local measure made freely available by search engines. Theoretical and empirical analyses lead to conclude that given the weak degree correlations in the Web link graph, the approximation can be relatively accurate, giving service and information providers an effective new marketing tool.}, author = {Fortunato, Santo and Boguna, Marian and Flammini, Alessandro and Menczer, Filippo }, citeulike-article-id = {1315911}, eprint = {cs/0511016}, keywords = {graph-theory}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2007-05-21 16:01:06}, priority = {0}, title = {How to make the top ten: Approximating PageRank from in-degree}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0511016}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1315911 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1315911 TI - How to make the top ten: Approximating PageRank from in-degree N2 - PageRank has become a key element in the success of search engines, allowing to rank the most important hits in the top screen of results. One key aspect that distinguishes PageRank from other prestige measures such as in-degree is its global nature. From the information provider perspective, this makes it difficult or impossible to predict how their pages will be ranked. Consequently a market has emerged for the optimization of search engine results. Here we study the accuracy with which PageRank can be approximated by in-degree, a local measure made freely available by search engines. Theoretical and empirical analyses lead to conclude that given the weak degree correlations in the Web link graph, the approximation can be relatively accurate, giving service and information providers an effective new marketing tool. KW - graph-theory AU - Fortunato, Santo AU - Boguna, Marian AU - Flammini, Alessandro AU - Menczer, Filippo PY - 2005/Nov/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0511016 ER -