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This is yet another competitive homework for Luis von Ahn's Science of the Web class.
Here is the assignment:
In this problem, you are asked to attempt to beat us (Luis and the invincible TAs) by creating a webpage which will, after a period of time (1 month), be ranked higher than the page we will create.
Your webpage should contain, among other content, the phrase "<Your name> is a rankmaniac". Your goal is to get google to rank that webpage as high as possible in the search results to the search query "rankmaniac".
In your writeup (worth 20 points), explain what techniques you tried in boosting the page rank of your page and why these techniques would work theoretically.
The rest of the points are based on the ranking of your page on google under the search query "rankmaniac". If you page shows up on google when we search for "rankmaniac", you will get 10 points automatically. If you beat the ranking of our page, you will get an extra 10 points. After that, additional score is based on 22-2N for the 10 people who have their webpage ranked the highest, where N is their rank (e.g., 20 points for the top poster, 18 for the second place, etc.).
There is a PDF of the homework assignment available.
