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- Apr 18, 199850% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Brin and Page Publish The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
- "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page of the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, was presented at WWW7 in Brisbane, 14-18 April 1998, and printed at pages 107-117[1]
- Its abstract: "In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems."[1]
- The prototype, with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages, was running at google.stanford.edu[1]
- PageRank measures a page's importance by counting the number and quality of links to it, on the assumption that more important pages receive more links[2]
- All patents associated with PageRank had expired by 24 September 2019[2]
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- [1]50%infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.htmlinfolab.stanford.edu· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Apr 18, 1998 ✓· 33% of score
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.
- [2]90%PageRanken.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
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]
- [3]80%Google Searchen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
What the prototype became, for the scale of the industry this paper started.[1]
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