Computing PageRank on your PC?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 12, 2003 @06:20AM from the for-the-curious-hacker dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of CS researchers of the University of Milan has found a way to compress web graphs at 3 bits per link, and to access them in compressed form. They provide data sets representing real snapshots of portions of the web with one hundred million nodes and 1 billion links. You just need some bandwidth to download a few hundred megabytes of data, and you can compute PageRank with your PC. All the code involved is GPL'd, and the data are public: everybody can grok PageRank now!"

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Re:Doesn't actually calculate PageRank? by Chundra · 2003-06-12 06:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

As best as I can tell from the website, the API is only for storing and interacting with a large graph. Nothing there is actually involved with PageRank.

Dude, how do you think pagerank works? You might want to go read the original paper before you make such idiotic claims.