Computing PageRank on your PC?

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!"

Comments

This sounds cool..

[xchino]

Now if I can just think of a reason why I would need this..

Re:This sounds cool..

[Daniel_Staal]

Now if I can just think of a reason why I would need this..

And you call yourself a geek. *Sigh*.

It doesn't matter why you need it. It's technical, GPLed, and has to do with Google. That's all the reason you need.

Re:This sounds cool..

[(trb001)]

It's technical, GPLed, and has to do with Google

It's a geek hattrick!

Tee Hee

[teamhasnoi]

I bet the Searchking is steaming right about now...

"Finally, proof!!"

One Billion Linnks?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is more links than that just at Microsoft's Support page. Although I don't know if you can call them links if they only send you around in a cirlce.

I can see it now...

[AyeRoxor!]

"[...] even on a PC with as little as 256 Mbytes of RAM."

Somewhere in 1980, milk shoots out of Bill Gates' nose for no apparent reason.

This is good, but...

[Prince_Ali]

This is good, but I'd rather have the google cache compressed to 3 bits per page.

"I'll be there in a minute! I'm downloading the Internet!"

Re:why is rank/rating necessary?

[TopShelf]

You get sort of a self reinforcing cycle of wankage...

For a second there I thought you were just talking like Elmer Fudd! "wating and wanking incwease the welevance of pagewanking..."

has to be said

[madHomer]

It's just not the same without the pigeons...

Re:Dumb Question:

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus, you created a second account just to defend yourself!

What a mess

[Ignorant Aardvark]

Sure, now everybody can grok PageRank, but I, for the life of me, cannot grok grok.

Re:Dumb Question:

[sig cop]

I didn't know what is it either.

Mod parent and grandparent and great-grandparent up.

Also, mod parents children up.

Also, mod great-great-grandparents great-great-granddaughters up.

Also, say up unto them verily, that the mod of the parent will be cast down the generations to be a mod on the children, and on the children's children, and on the children's children's chilluns.

And also, mod up the nephews of the parents of the sibilings of the grandparent for though they be trolls or flaimbait, they are righteous in the eyes of the moderators.

And thou shalt visit the mods onto the descendents on through the generations, for I, your Mod, have smote upon thee a mod pestilence that shalt not be lifted until the second coming of the JonKats.

Thanks be to Mod, Amen

Re:does this mean...

[JamesOfTheDesert]

... pear search

... to find the fruits of your labor?

What a grape idea! Orange you glad you thought of it?

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Ok. Groan fest is over.