annoying, but not necessarily incorrect

[waider]

I skimmed through yet another attempt to explain Google's PageRank system (summary: "we trawled everyone else's documents and glommed them into ours, producing zero new information in the process") and found, right near the start, the statement that "not all links weight the same". Personally if I'd been asked to proof the article I'd have flagged this as a typo for "weigh", but I guess in the context in which it's used it's actually a valid if annoying use of "weight".

I still think the article as a whole is pointless, though.

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"weigh" vs. "weight"

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

The only difference I can find is that when you weigh something you discover what its value is, while when you weight something you assign a value to it. "Weigh" involves some intrinsic property, while "weight" doesn't.

But maybe not.