PageRank Mimics The Brain
This is eerie - according to a recent research by World Science, Google page Rank is very similar to the way our own brain functions.
Page Rank for instance is based on popularity - taking into account the number of other pages linking to the page, as well the importance of the pages linking to that page, and so on and so forth. Thomas Griffiths of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues ranked the “importance” of over 5,000 words using PageRank, but instead of Internet links, they tallied mental “links” between words as reflected in answers given in word-association games by people participating in previous studies. The results showed that a word’s “PageRank” was a good predictor of how often it would show up when people were asked to think of words that start with A, with B, and so on. Read on …
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