Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se...
by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:53PM
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>Eh, not actually unique to Google. Remember that Jon Kleinberg was developing HITS in parallel -- AV was well aware of the concept of measuring page importance using incoming links, and we had our own implementation.
And the guy who started Baidu (the Google of China), Robin Li, had created his similar to PageRank algorithm, and even patented it in the US, before Google (he filled for the patent in 1997, Google was founded in 1998).
However, Kaiser Kuo points out that Robin Li, the co-founder of Baidu, obtained a patent for hypertext link analysis before Larry Page obtained his “Page Rank” version.
And the guy who started Baidu (the Google of China), Robin Li, had created his similar to PageRank algorithm, and even patented it in the US, before Google (he filled for the patent in 1997, Google was founded in 1998).
However, Kaiser Kuo points out that Robin Li, the co-founder of Baidu, obtained a patent for hypertext link analysis before Larry Page obtained his “Page Rank” version.