Tech Review: A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online

Posted July 31st, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture

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Brittany Sauser in Technology Review reports on a new algorithm developed to help social media users better determine the trustworthiness of posters. The work focuses on collaborative tagging systems and is managing to effectively measure the quality of posts. Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking (SPEAR) is based on the HITS algorithm used by search engines like Google to rank Web pages.

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23100/?nlid=2235

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David Green. "Tech Review: A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 31 July 2010. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.

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