{"id":436,"date":"2006-08-17T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2006-08-17T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T19:03:24","slug":"are-high-search-results-self-perpetuating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/are-high-search-results-self-perpetuating\/","title":{"rendered":"Are high search results self-perpetuating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting (and short) article over at <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060817-7532.html\">arstechnica<\/a> takes a look at that question.  If a website ranks highly in searches, and search rankings are based on popularity, won&#8217;t that only serve to make the website more popular and keep it high on the list?  This study suggests, counter-intuitively, that the opposite is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting (and short) article over at arstechnica takes a look at that question. If a website ranks highly in searches, and search rankings are based on popularity, won&#8217;t that only serve to make the website more popular and keep it high on the list? This study suggests, counter-intuitively, that the opposite is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-72","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}