5x PageRank Speedup

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Hugh Lilly <h.lilly () gmx net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:35:43 +1200
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Fw: 5x PageRank Speedup

On Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:00 AM +1300 [NZST],
Google Weblog <google () aaronsw com> said:

> URL: http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000920
> Date: 2003-05-14T09:56-06:00
>
> NSF: Researchers Develop Techniques for Computing Google-Style Web
> Rankings Up to Five Times Faster[1].
>
> The NSF is reporting that a group of Stanford researchers have found
> how to calculate PageRank much faster by using a variety estimation
> techniques. The idea is that the extra time can be used to calculate
> customized PageRanks for various topics. Eventually, if they get it
> fast enough, they might even be able to calculate a person PageRank,
> based on the sites that you link to.
>
> Interestingly, much of this was proposed in the original PageRank
> paper from when Google's founders were at Stanford. The paper had a
> number of clever ideas, including a web browser add on that would
> show a little bar next to each link with the PageRank of the linked
> page. The idea was to indicate which links were most interesting, and
> also to help point out bad or broken links. It's too bad that
> Google's been focusing on the search engine to the exclusion of other
> PageRank possibilities.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0356.htm

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