When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays
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The foundational idea behind PageRank is that a 'web page is important if it is pointed to by other important pages.' This social signaling reflects the real world.
Brin and Page recognized early that the web is a social environment, where the significance of pages can be augmented by the quality and quantity of links.
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