Podcast search has no PageRank
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they have a clear signal, the PageRank would signal that link based on incoming links. That was a clear signal, that of quality, that this this thing rises to the top of the stack. As you have incoming links, there's no, there's nothing like that in podcasting.
Episode 122: We're Trending! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:20:04 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
People underestimate how hard good podcast search is. Google had a clear quality signal in incoming links. Podcasting has nothing like that: download counts are known only to the podcaster, each app sees only its own slice, and on-device apps like Castamatic don't see even that. Dave says you can mine for topics, but you'll never get a real 'best' ranking.
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Episode 109: 4 Gigs of Knitting (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:07:24 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
This is just purely just a list of popular podcast. That way, we all have a real ranking system to say, not ranking in the gross sense where you're like, you know, this one's better than this other one, but like actual usage,
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Episode 122: We're Trending! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:22:52 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
You're you're not gonna get a, you're not gonna get a ranking that's ever real in a way of sort of like popularity,
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