Comments on: Network laws and the transparency of emergence http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/12/03/network-laws-and-the-transparency-of-emergence/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Judy Breck http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/12/03/network-laws-and-the-transparency-of-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-85373 Judy Breck Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:47:05 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=3243#comment-85373 Thanks! Excellent point about the untransparent weighting of the ranking algorithm. Still, because a vast number of links for any topic are included in the search results, there is more transparency than peer review which completely excludes most submissions and ideas that are "unapproved." I stand by this principle: In an open network emergent patterns are transparent. When Google rigs its algorithm, it is no longer allowing open emergence. Thanks! Excellent point about the untransparent weighting of the ranking algorithm. Still, because a vast number of links for any topic are included in the search results, there is more transparency than peer review which completely excludes most submissions and ideas that are “unapproved.”

I stand by this principle: In an open network emergent patterns are transparent. When Google rigs its algorithm, it is no longer allowing open emergence.

]]> By: James Barnes http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/12/03/network-laws-and-the-transparency-of-emergence/comment-page-1/#comment-85365 James Barnes Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:54:34 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=3243#comment-85365 "The search engine principle invented at Google sends to the top of its search results the nodes visited by the most users, with known experts given more weight." Until Google publishes The Algorithm, you don't *know* this is a fact, you can only take Google's word for it: how transparent is that? “The search engine principle invented at Google sends to the top of its search results the nodes visited by the most users, with known experts given more weight.”

Until Google publishes The Algorithm, you don’t *know* this is a fact, you can only take Google’s word for it: how transparent is that?

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