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the quiet measure of whether anyone will still care tomorrow.
means The quality of being closely connected or appropriately related to the matter at hand.
from From Latin relevare, "to lift up, lighten," built from re- (again) and levare (to raise) — a cousin of "relieve" and "levity." The legal-flavored "relevant" arrived in English (via Scottish law and Medieval Latin relevans, "bearing upon") to mean something that legally lifts or supports a case. So at its root, what is relevant literally helps carry the weight of the argument.
- search ranking
- Google's entire empire is built on ranking it
- economics
- diminishing relevance is why fame has an expiry date
- logic
- philosophers built whole logics around it alone
- attention
- the brain filters irrelevance before you notice anything
google pagerank algorithm — larry page and sergey brin's 1998 system that ranked web pages by link relevance, revolutionizing search
netflix recommendation engine — uses viewing history relevance to suggest shows; 75% of user engagement comes from recommendations
ap news wire gatekeeping — editors decide which stories are relevant enough to distribute to 4,000+ newspapers daily since 1846