Comment Re:10,000 words (Score 1) 131
Not directly related to this reply, but putting it here for visibility.
Not self-promotion. Just would like to provide some useful reference:
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
- This paper tells you what PageRank really is, by the original author.
Efficient Computation of PageRank
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1999-31
- This paper tells you how they efficiently compute it
And as far as I know about information retrieval, the magic you see on Google today isn't primarily contributed by PageRank, since people fake it so much nowadays with domain farms.
