The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997)

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997)(infolab.stanford.edu)

38 points by dcpdx 11 years ago | 11 comments

gp2000 11 years ago |

Google of the past has severe doubts about Google of the present:

...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

srcmap 11 years ago | |

Young Jedi felt the power of the dark side.

vayarajesh 11 years ago |

> "There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. The full version is available on the web and the conference CD-ROM"

Does anyone have a link to the full version? I would love to read more in detail.. it is so inspiring

I think after E=MC2 , The PageRank algorithm "PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))" is the formula which changed the entire world..

sytelus 11 years ago | |

This version is actually the full version. The short version was designed for printing out/conference while longer version is designed for hosting on web.

Also there is a book on the subject Google's PageRank and Beyond http://books.google.com/books?id=KsHTl_2Pfl8C

Other interesting articles: THE $25,000,000,000∗ EIGENVECTOR http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pd...

How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank

The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/courses/BIB/pagerank.h...

vayarajesh 11 years ago | | |

Thanks!

trg2 11 years ago |

Love this. The first sentence is still very telling:

In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext.

bulte-rs 11 years ago |

I remember citing this article in my thesis and thinking "damn has it been 10 years already". I was 23 back then. :|

Thinking of the PageRank algorithm as a eigenvalue problem was one of the few 'things' that were a real eye opener for me and allowed me to actually connect maths and computer science for these practical purposes.

hrish2006 11 years ago |

"So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search" Wow!

vayarajesh 11 years ago | |

Wow indeed!

extofer 11 years ago |

I agree, the first statement was captivating. It's nostalgic and yet, a form of forecasting in it's own right, what becomes future technology in this architecture

qwerb 11 years ago |

Reading this is like time travel.