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Submitted on 31st of October 2001
Author Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry
Title The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.
Date of publication 11th of November 1999
Citation Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry. The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.,
Number of pages 17
Language English
Project Digital Libraries
Type Other
Subject group Digital Libraries
Abstract The importance of a Web page is an inherently subjective matter, which depends on the readers interests, knowledge and attitudes. But there is still much that can be said objectively about the relative importance of Web pages. This paper describes PageRank, a mathod for rating Web pages objectively and mechanically, effectively measuring the human interest and attention devoted to them. We compare PageRank to an idealized random Web surfer. We show how to efficiently compute PageRank for large numbers of pages. And, we show how to apply PageRank to search and to user navigation.
Notes Previous number = SIDL-WP-1999-0120
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