First Google Patent
Automatically organizing the world’s information
Today in 2001, Google co-founder Larry Page was granted a patent for the PageRank search algorithm—“The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it… The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large…
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