[Sigia-l] Findability

[Jonathan Broad]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 01:06, Madhu Menon wrote:
> At 09:01 AM 28-01-03, Karl Fast wrote:
> >In a course I took last term on information retrieval systems we
> >spent some time on the Google algorithm.
> 
> Please do disclose to us the Google algorithm. :)
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, they've never really told us much about
it. 
> PageRank is just one element.
> 

The best information I've found on the subject is a rather lengthy paper
called "Pagerank Uncovered":
http://www.supportforums.org/PageRank.pdf

In it, A number of search engine experts attempt to reverse engineer
Google's algorithm.  Can't nail it exactly, but close enough for all
practical purposes.

Jonathan Broad