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The Math Behind PageRank

Posted by samzenpus on from the learn-to-be-number-one dept.

anaesthetica writes "The American Mathematical Society is featuring an article with an in-depth explanation of the type of mathematical operations that power PageRank. Because about 95% of the text on the 25 billion pages indexed by Google consist of the same 10,000 words, determining relevance requires an extremely sophisticated set of methods. And because the links constituting the web are constantly changing and updating, the relevance of pages needs to be recalculated on a continuous basis."

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  1. Re:PageRank doesn't seem to be based on keywords by pilkul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love slashdot fools that post as quickly as possible to have a better chance of being moderated up, but they don't RTFA and are way, way off.

  2. In Poor Taste by Reverend99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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  3. Re:Send email to a dead man? by treeves · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't have any Mod points right now, but isn't a reply to an Offtopic post pretty much automatically offtopic? Go ahead and mod me Offtopic, I'll consider that an affirmative answer.

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