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The Ranking of Irrelevancy

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Ranking protocol , the staple of many businesses, could be defined as a simple system on the surface, but past that it’s far more convoluted than would be expected. The slightest miscommunication could spark confusion over the entire business network, customers especially. And with ranking being based on so many different factors, it starts to resembled a spider web, intertwining all kinds of criteria together to come to a calculated conclusion. For example, many businesses have a “Top Rankings” system and it’s often misunderstood exactly how that system functions. When a business displays a “Top 3” list, many like to believe that it’s calculated in an entirely different way than it actually is. A ranking system is simply an algorithm to play teacher and rank entries based on cumulative data for the person or product. Even so, this seeming simplicity is anything but when explaining exactly how such a system works, as it involves machines and calculations impossible for the hum