The history section mentions the work of Baidu’s founder as somewhat related to PageRank in that it scores based on links. Work of others are also mentioned in

The history section mentions the work of Baidu’s founder as somewhat related to PageRank in that it scores based on links. Work of others are also mentioned in the same section as “influential” for the development of PageRank. If we just trace back bibliographic references to decide on the inventor of PageRank, it will probably be Archimedes.