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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. The major thing missing from Mozilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is a way to look at Google's pagerank. That's the only real thing the IE Google toolbar has over the Mozilla alternative.

  2. Dumb Question: by Xesdeeni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's Page Rank? Does this indicate how often my page is visited?

    Xesdeeni

  3. Some webmasters/SEO's are obsessive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If Google tweaks one thing, causing result 97 to shift to result 98, they notice. They'd be doing this daily to check on their pages.

  4. Which sites are the Root(s)? by amembleton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When these Web Graph or Page Rank things are drawn up which sites do they use as the roots?

    I mean they've got to start with some site(s) and then go through each link from there.