The EigenRumor algorithm for ranking blogs

Abstract

The advent of easy to use blogging tools is increasing the number of bloggers leading to more diversity in the quality blogspace. The blog search technologies that help users to find “good ” blogs are thus more and more important. This paper proposes a new algorithm called “EigenRumor ” that scores each blog entry by weighting the hub and authority scores of the bloggers based on eigenvector calculations. This algorithm enables a higher score to be assigned to the blog entries submitted by a good blogger but not yet linked to by any other blogs based on acceptance of the blogger's prior work.