PageRank Algorithm in the Cloud using the Google App Engine

by Kristian Kraljic, January 14, 2012

Two articles a day, this is madness! Madness? This is /Sparta+/. But enough with the old age jokes, pimped up with a little pseudo nerd regex skill to make it even unfunnier!… Sorry for that, let’s get serious!

Have you ever read the famous paper The Anatomy of a Search Engine of the two godfathers Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page themselves? Not? Than you may should do so. Having the chance to study at the Stanford University must be heaven on earth. Anyways, today I’d like to give you a quick introduction to the PageRank algorithm. In my opinion another great example of a beautiful computer algorithm.

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