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Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster

Posted by timothy on from the hypercustom dept.

Kimberley Burchett writes "CS researchers at Stanford University have developed three new techniques that together could speed up Google's PageRank calculations by a factor of five. An article at ScienceBlog theorizes that "The speed-ups to Google's method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests or customized to a particular topic.""

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  1. Re:Bullshit by Klaruz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Umm... For the most part Stanford Researchers == Google Researchers.

    Google came about from a stanford research project. There's a good chance the people who are responsable for the speedup either allready knew about pagerank from working with the founders, or signed an nda.

    I haven't read the article, but I bet it hints at that.