Posted by ReGenesis0 on 02/08/06 02:15

This is... I guess more of a programming structure question than
anything.
How does one index the popularity of something? Overall usage? How
does recent-term popularity come in? Is there an algorithm for
weighting the popularity, or does one just index a popularity value for
forever, 1 week, 1 day, etc? And in that case, how does one know when
oldd 'hits' pass out of current consideration?

I mean- this sort of problem has existed for twenty years. I'm
TRUSTING (hoping) there is some sort of disgustingly elegant but
anti-intuitive solution for this sort of thing I'm just not seeing.

.....help?

-Derik

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