Page Rank

Linear Digressions

• Episode: Page Rank
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:19:58
• Published: 2017-06-05 03:46

The year: 1998.  The size of the web: 150 million pages.  The problem: information retrieval.  How do you find the "best" web pages to return in response to a query?  A graduate student named Larry Page had an idea for how it could be done better and created a search engine as a research project.  That search engine was called Google.