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Re:Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm? by HakeHayashi on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:54PM (#25413355)
Mm... PageRank is the basis, but then recent publications suggest they use a multitude of factors (probably 7-10+?) to evaluate sites. PageRank is still more-or-less the biggest chunk, but since people learned how to game it, they've had to likewise step up their internal game on ranking. What you're requesting probably comes off as a trade secret, but you could probably get reasonable results using a PageRank inspired hybrid
Re:Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm? by ktpsns on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:00AM (#25415658)
The pagerank algorithm is public and there exist a lot of implementations, for instance https://networkx.org/documentation/networkx-1.10/reference/g...
Re:Ask HN: Can you borrow Googles search algorithm? by tinus_hn on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:12PM (#25421808)
I’m pretty sure it was patented at the beginning so it should be free by now