This talk presents several main ideas concerning Google's PageRank algorithm, as discussed in the following articles.

1. Brin, Sergey and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
   Published 29 January 1998; Accessed 10 February 2007.
   
   
2. Page, Lawrence; Sergey Brin; Rajeev Motwani; and Terry Winograd, The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web, the Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project, http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/1999-66
   Published 11 November 1999; Accessed 10 February 2007.
   
   
3. Rogers, Ian, Page Rank Explained: The Goggle PageRank Algorithm and How It Works, http://iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/
   Published April 2002; Accessed 10 February 2007
   
   

Much of the talk follows reference 2, and much of the notation follows that source.

created: 10 February 2007 last revised: 10 February 2007

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