Abstract

The importance of a Web page is an inherently subjective matter, which depends on the readers interests, knowledge and attitudes. But there is still much that can be said objectively about the relative importance of Web pages. This paper describes PageRank, a method for rating Web pages objectively and mechanically, effectively measuring the human interest and attention devoted to them. We compare PageRank to an idealized random Web surfer. We show how to efficiently compute PageRank for large numbers of pages. And, we show how to apply PageRank to search and to user navigation.

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PageRankComputer scienceRanking (information retrieval)Web pageInformation retrievalCitationWeb search engineWorld Wide WebSearch engineOrder (exchange)Web navigation

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Year
1999
Type
article
Volume
98
Pages
161-172
Citations
12642
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Lawrence M. Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani et al. (1999). The PageRank Citation Ranking : Bringing Order to the Web. , 98 , 161-172.