I may be incorrect, but I've been lead to believe pagerank is of minor importance (relative to it's supposed importance) in google's search algorithm.

Pretty mathematical paper but very interesting. You can follow it with elementary linear algebra notions (if you learned them of course ;))

It's hard to believe that two PhD students came up with all of this. I think they got some help from their professors :)

I don't think you've been in academia much. Professors just put their names on things :)

Actually I have.

And top notch professors -- such as those at Stanford -- will generally not do that.

And top notch students -- such as those at Stanford -- don't necessarily need professors to come up with things like this.

It was a joke, by the way.