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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Counting inbound links was a world-beating *retrospective* way of predicting which page would best match a searcher's query, but once it shaped the world it sought to analyze, it ceased to be a good *prospective* way to predict which page would best match your queries.
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2026-08-12T09:51:05.522Z