2010/05/01 by Marcos André Gonçalves, Jussara M. Almeida, Luiz G.P. dos Santos +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Information Retrieval and Search Behavior #Web Data Mining and Analysis #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Popularity #Blogosphere #PageRank #Exploit #Computer science #Credibility #Information retrieval #World Wide Web #Internet privacy #Ranking (information retrieval) #Social media #Search engine #The Internet #Computer security #Psychology #Political science
paper · doi:10.1109/mic.2010.73
openalex publication_date 2010/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
The blogosphere's more outgoing and informal social nature provides an opportunity to exploit more socially oriented features, such as credibility and popularity, for searching, recommendation, and other tasks. In this article, the authors present evidence that blog popularity in particular has been underexploited by current search engines, including specialized ones, and that a low correlation exists between such popularity and a blog's perceived importance in a Web graph, as measured by PageRank. The authors suggest that incorporating popularity into search engine ranking could result in significant gains in retrieval effectiveness and thus user satisfaction.