Who Came up With LinkedIn's Algorithm?
I've never been overly enthusiastic about LinkedIn, but I'm becoming increasingly intrigued about how they generate their "people you may know" list. (I'm also getting sucked in to the "how many connections can you add" game.)
One set of thoughts as to how you may construct an algorithm here. Another piece of speculation here. The LinkedIn hive answers here. Earlier Valleywag post here.
What's eerie is that they suggest individuals that I've emailed once or twice and with whom I have no public connection on the web . . . at least without connecting a zillion dots.
"What's eerie is that they suggest individuals that I've emailed once or twice and with whom I have no public connection on the web "
When you send someone a mail, some mail apps (like gmail) add those ids in your contact list.
so two things could have happened
1) You imported your contact list to linked in and those members were found in your contact list
2) They imported their contact list and your mail id was found in that
I mentioned that in my blog post (the first link in your post)
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