What is the PageRank algorithm?
PageRank was our way of bringing order to the web. We saw that the web was growing rapidly, and we needed a method to determine the importance of web pages. Instead of just counting links to a page, PageRank treats links as 'votes.' A link from page A to page B is counted as a vote from A to B. Crucially, we determined that the importance of the voting page itself matters. A vote from an important page carries more weight than a vote from a less important page. This recursive definition allowed us to rank pages based on their link structure, providing more relevant search results.
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