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Re:Markov Chains Explained by pedrosorio on Saturday July 05, 2014 @08:29PM (#7993401)
It models the web as a Markov Chain where web pages are states and the transitions are the outgoing links.
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Re:Markov Chains Explained by jlukecarlson on Saturday July 05, 2014 @11:11PM (#7993709)
Exactly and the actual page rank of the site comes from finding the equilibrium distribution from the transition matrix, which in this case is called a Google matrix.
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