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Surely this is innovation when applied to a new domain (ranking websites). Also Google never stopped innovating PageRank and other ranking techniques. PG apply
by blauwbilgorgel 13y ago
Surely this is innovation when applied to a new domain (ranking websites). Also Google never stopped innovating PageRank and other ranking techniques.
PG applying Bayes' theorem to e-mail spam was innovative.
If we get very loose with our definition of algorithm, one could even say that ants implemented the first PageRank-like algorithm, when they ranked sources of food, using pheromone trails.
- walid 13y agoWell I haven't read the actual page ranking patent but apply existing math to solve a problem is not innovation. However your example about ants is very true. Ants should be the patent holders of page ranking. But that also means the patent should have already expired a long time ago.