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

why is rank/rating necessary?

[The Terrorists]

You get sort of a self reinforcing cycle of wankage the more we increase the "relevance", "awareness" or "utility" of pageranking. Post good info for its own sake, not for popularity's sake. Slashdot is a good example of the latter over the past few years. It could have receded back into the depths and maintained quality but it put page-ranking first, attempting to attract and contain a particular audience.

TV without Nielsen ratings would be better too, for similar reason.

Im sorry, I have to say it tho......

[reality-bytes]

*Cough*

Technically speaking you'd be donwloading the WEB not the Internet



Trouble is with googles web cache, theres no pics; just think of all the beautiful images of pet dogs and holidays at Weston-super-Mare you'd be missing out on!