He theorized that just as the credibility of an academic work is often weighted by the number and diversity of other works it cites, the importance of any given Web page could also be determined by the number of other pages to which it is linked.

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Curators refused to show his work, and over the years, many museums de-accessioned Bouguereau and other academic painters to acquire more "progressive" art.

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