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Computing PageRank on your PC?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. This sounds cool.. by xchino · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:This sounds cool.. by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

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    2. Re:This sounds cool.. by (trb001) · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      It's a geek hattrick!

  2. Tee Hee by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I bet the Searchking is steaming right about now...

    "Finally, proof!!"

  3. I can see it now... by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 5, Funny

    "[...] 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.

  4. This is good, but... by Prince_Ali · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!"

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  5. Re:why is rank/rating necessary? by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    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..."

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  6. has to be said by madHomer · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Re:Dumb Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  8. Re:does this mean... by JamesOfTheDesert · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... 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.

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