Our behavior in using Internet, which include the time we spend on a web page and the pages that most of us visit oftentimes will potentially become major barometers of page importance, according to Microsoft research team.
Here is an excerpt from “BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance,”, an academic paper co-authored by Microsoft researchers Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li; Zhiming Ma of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yuting Liu from Beijing Jiaotong University; Shuyuan He from Peking University; and Nankai University’s Ying Zhang.
In this paper, we propose computing page importance by using a ’user browsing graph’ created from user behavior data….In this way, we can leverage hundreds of millions of users’ implicit voting on page importance. Experimental results show that BrowseRank indeed outperforms the baseline methods such as PageRank and TrustRank in several tasks.
Should it be implemented, ordinary internet users will truly become the Internet voters. They cast their ballots by visiting their favorite pages more often and devoting additional ”quality time” with them. TG does not have a good idea of how the mathematical computation was done, but I am quite sure that many users like us would love to see the internet development in the future would consider “user-centered design”.
