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The paper was presented at the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, held in Brisbane on 14-18 April 1998, and published in the proceedings at pages 107-117; the paper itself carries no date. With only a conference window, the pin takes its closing day rather than its first.
Describes the algorithm the paper introduced - "a way of measuring the importance of website pages" by "counting the number and quality of links to a page" - and records that Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd co-authored with Page and Brin "the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998".[1]
What the prototype became, for the scale of the industry this paper started.[1]
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