Posted by windandwaves on 11/06/42 11:31

Ian B wrote:
> To answer your other question, it will be self-fulfilling (IMHO).
> Amazon has the advantage of sales (which is the ultimate indicator of
> whether the visitor wanted to go to that page) but you have no such
> feedback, so everyone who goes to page a might then click through to
> page b and hate it, but it will become more 'popular' in your rating
> system.
>
> You could try to balance this out by using the same SQL but with the
> DESC removed and have a link "Almost no-one went to these pages - find
> out why!"
>
> :-)
>
> I've done this on a web site which searches for businesses, and no-one
> stays at the bottom of the popularity list for long
>
> Ian

I can solve this by using a session variable that makes clicks from the
popularity list be excluded from the popularity list, thereby reducing some
of the self-fulfilling prophecy clicks lead to more clicks.

THANKS


- Nicolaas

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