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Nothing. Everybody freely has copied PageRank already. It has became one of the basic teaching material in graph theory. For example, NetworkX, a popular graph
by kbumsik 7y ago
Nothing. Everybody freely has copied PageRank already. It has became one of the basic teaching material in graph theory.
For example, NetworkX, a popular graph library in Python, implements PageRank. [1]
[1] https://networkx.github.io/documentation/networkx-1.10/reference/generated/networkx.algorithms.link_analysis.pagerank_alg.pagerank.html https://networkx.github.io/documentation/networkx-1.10/refer...
- aitchnyu 7y agoYears back, graph dbs bragged about implementing PR in a few lines and ecologists using PR on species. https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-algorithms/current/algorithms/page-rank/ https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-algorithms/current/algorithms/p... https://phys.org/news/2009-09-web-page-algorithm-critical-species.html https://phys.org/news/2009-09-web-page-algorithm-critical-sp...
- kreetx 7y agoHow does that work in the real world - do google simply not care, or it's "fair use" somehow?
- acct1771 7y agoThey'd only care if money gained - PR lost == profit.
- rocqua 7y agoThe patent is only for web search, so other applications dont infringe the patent.
- bbrb 7y agoFirst sentence of the abstract of the patent: "A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database."