Google has a number of interesting features, most notably that results
are sorted by a metric called PageRank, which is loosely defined as
follows:
"PageRank, which is a graph-theoretic measure of citation of
the page. ... It is important to note that PageRank is
independent of the query you type; it is a property of the page
itself. ... Roughly speaking a page has high PageRank if there
are many pages that point to it that have high PageRank. We
have found this corresponds closely to the importance of a web
page. However there are a number of counterexamples."
Although it's not yet a production system, I think it's worth watching.
-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") rid...@rice.edu
-- Webmaster, Rice University / http://is.rice.edu/~riddle
On 10 Jun 1998 17:56:50 GMT, rid...@rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:57:22 -0700
>> From: Roy Tennant <rten...@library.berkeley.edu>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list <web...@library.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Experimental search engine
>>
>> Those of you who follow search engine developments may want to check out
>> Stanford University's Google (formerly the BackRub project, and their
>> crawler is still named that) at:
>>
>> http://google.stanford.edu/
>
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