PageRank and Google
PageRank y Google
- Date
- 1998 · confidence high
- Place
- Stanford University and a garage in Menlo Park, California, United States
- Credited to
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- People
- 👤 Larry Page1973–👤 Serguéi Brin1973–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Algorithm that ranks web pages by the quantity and quality of the links they receive, treating a link as a vote. It made search relevant and created the world's largest advertising company.
What it led to
- Targeted advertising and surveillance capitalism
- Google as a gateway to knowledge and its power over media and commerce
- Recommendation systems and, through Google's research, the transformer
Built on
- World Wide Web1989-1991
- Search engine (Archie, WebCrawler, AltaVista)1990-1995
- citation analysis (Garfield)