creators_name: Lawrence Page
creators_name: Sergey Brin
creators_name: Rajeev Motwani
creators_name: Terry Winograd
type: monograph
datestamp: 2001-10-31 00:00:00
lastmod: 2008-12-28 17:56:22
metadata_visibility: show
title: The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.
subjects: SIL-CS-DigLib
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
note: Previous number = SIDL-WP-1999-0120
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 mathod 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.
date: 1999-11-11
publisher: Stanford InfoLab
id_number: 1999-66
institution: Stanford InfoLab
related_url_url: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/
related_url_type: proj
citation: Page, Lawrence and Brin, Sergey and Motwani, Rajeev and Winograd, Terry (1999) The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Technical Report. Stanford InfoLab.
document_url: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf