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PageRank is based people linking using huge scale of the entire internet.

It’s difficult to infer importance based on a couple of thousand documents at most.



No, it isn't. It was, back in the 90s. But full text linked document indexing was a fully solved problem by 2012, and Confluence put genuine effort into not using any of the existing solutions and instead went with "You get grep. Not search. Sucks to be you".




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