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Actually, no PageRank wasn't even the first web search algorithm to do that. HITS, by Jon Kleinberg was the first rigorous formulation of that notion (which is
by wheels 17y ago
Actually, no PageRank wasn't even the first web search algorithm to do that. HITS, by Jon Kleinberg was the first rigorous formulation of that notion (which is mentioned in the article) and was cited in the original PageRank paper. It was widely known at the time that it was a concept imported from library science for correlation in co-citation patterns.
- zandorg 17y agoThat happens a lot. Someone invents something at the same time as another guy. One of these guys has some VC or Angel cash. Guess who succeeds most?
- wheels 17y agoUhm, Jon Kleinberg is an academic (one of computer science's finest) and was clearly cited in the PageRank paper. He's authored seminal publications across several sub-fields of computer science, he's in a named chair in an Ivy League university, and laid the foundations for modern web search. I'd say he's been pretty successful for a guy in his 30s. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/