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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. Re:does this mean... by Diego_27182818 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    and the beginning of peap to pear search?


    So the only definitions for peap I could find were as acronyms

    PEAP
    1. Positive-End Airway Pressure
    2. Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

    And I'm not sure how either one of those would search to a pear.
    --
    Warning, cape does not enable user to fly
  2. Re:Dumb Question: by breandandalton · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    >What's Page Rank? Does this indicate how often my page is visited?

    Ah, come on guys, who modded this "interesting"? Come on, own up! It's "funny" and "troll"!

    Or is this a slashdot moderation troll?