[Tech] PageRank for premix routing?

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> PageRank is patented, and picking a fight with Google is a bad idea
> especially as they gave us 4 summer coders and $2000 last year.

Sorry, did I say PageRank? I meant eigenvector centrality. :-) See the 
related work section of this paper by Jon Kleinberg (who else?) - it 
turns out people have been calculating eigenvector centrality in social 
networks since at least the 70s and possibly the 50s:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.pdf

I agree that it would be stupid (and ungrateful) to antagonise Google, 
but there seems to be plenty of prior art for using eigenvector 
centrality as a trust metric. I'll try to chase up the Katz, Hubbell and 
Pinski-Narin refs tonight.

> However I do worry that once we have opennet nobody will use darknet. :|

Agreed.

Cheers,
Michael