"Google's PageRank algorithm assesses the importance of web pages without human evaluation of the content. In fact, Google feels that the value of its service is largely in its ability to provide unbiased results to search queries; Google claims, 'the heart of our software is PageRank'. As we'll see, the trick is to ask the web itself to rank the importance of pages."
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You are right, guys.
This stuff _is_ pretty heavy.
It's a pleasure to see that all the crap I had to learn has its use, though. 
Without studying physics I'd have exactly zero chance of understanding the article.
My two "Leistungskurse" (which are subjects you put special focus on and learn more about) were math and chemistry.
Still, without university math you don't have the slightest chance of understanding the article.
The main things one needs to know about in order to grasp the article are:
-function
-vector
-matrix (no, not the movie!)
-"Eigenvectors"/static vectors
-"Eigenvalues"
If some of you are really interested, I could try and write an article explaining these things.
Not in a way that would make you pass exams at university.
What I could do however, is try and give you a rough idea of what this is all about.
And I can't promise anything since I've quite a lot of stuff to do.
So, who's still interested?
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Hopefully this algorithm will change soon and bring two benefits to us all:
1- Better search results based more on content (since we are looking for content, and not for "famous" pages)
2- It will stop lots of spamming on the web, especially in forums and blogs.
I'm not saying that google is a bad search engine or that the algorithm was a bad idea from the beginning. It's just that it's easy to be abused, and spammers have abused it too much already.
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You should read the SearchMash article then:
http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/295
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If you think that's silly, look into some of the attempts at "google hacking" that the Church of Scientology pulled a few years ago. They created hundreds of pro-scientology websites and made them all link to each other to artificially increase their pagerank score (and to prevent any results critical of scientology from appearing until the 5th or 6th page).
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2006-09-25
Here's an other article about PageRank I randomly found someday (from the programmer of Ranish partition manager): http://www.ranish.com/research/VaporRank.htm
It's quite the tongue-in-cheek though
Edited 2006-12-07 20:18
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