Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by adventured on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:08PM
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It is a seemingly incorrect claim. Google has semi-recently, publicly said they still use PageRank as one of their signals.
https://searchengineland.com/google-has-confirmed-they-are-r...
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by nostrademons on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:18PM
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They replaced it in 2006 with an algorithm that gives approximately-similar results but is significantly faster to compute. The replacement algorithm is the number that's been reported in the toolbar, and what Google claims as PageRank (it even has a similar name, and so Google's claim isn't technically incorrect). Both algorithms are O(N log N) but the replacement has a much smaller constant on the log N factor, because it does away with the need to iterate until the algorithm converges. That's fairly important as the web grew from ~1-10M pages to 150B+.
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by tripzilch on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @08:33AM
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> That's fairly important as the web grew from ~1-10M pages to 150B+.
This is the weird thing -- it feels smaller. Back in the early 2000s it really felt like I was navigating an ocean of knowledge. But these days it just feels like a couple of lakes.
(also, I'm pretty sure it was billions already quite early on?)
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by websitejanitor on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:33AM
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So what's the name of the new algorithm?
That's quite a claim considering they were reporting PageRank in their toolbar until 2016, and toolbar PageRank was visible in Google Directory until 2011.
Are you talking about PageRank from the original patent?