Duane Forrester
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918 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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We had it in a little toolbar at the bottom and it was like, you know, this was every it's like if you had a higher seven out of ten, then I wanted a link from you back to me and that would help boost my score and all of that, right?
Um oh page rank.
And um those types of things are useful in that they are visualizations of a complex topic.
Okay.
Um for years I wanted to I wanted to create one when I was at Bing.
Um the problem was the scale at Bing was, I think it was like
Wanda
Sixty two thousand or something.
So it didn't make sense.
You you had to translate that into something that was like rational for the human mind to wrap their head around.
You know, because like, how do I tell you you score four hundred of sixty two thousand?
What does that even look like on a graph?
You could barely see the color.
Like it just looks heartbreaking, you know?
Um, but there was never any value in exposing it because what the page rank score taught us was that people wanted to game scores like that.
They used them for tracking their gamification of like, oh, well, if I get a link from here, then that'll boost mine.
And if I get a bunch of those links, that boosts mine, that boosts my ranking.
And even though I don't deserve to be ranking well, I am ranking well, and I'll take
the traffic and the revenue and as long as I don't pop on a radar in Mountain View, I'll be okay.
Like and I think everybody's learned from those bad old days and kind of moved on.
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