Start-up Targets More Personal Search
News Kaltix was formed in recent months by three members of Stanford's PageRank team -- a research group created to advance the mathematical algorithm developed by Google co-founder and Stanford alum Larry Page that cemented Google's fame.
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Google Could Be Five Times Faster
News To speed up PageRank, Stanford researchers have developed a trio of techniques based on a branch of mathematics called numerical linear algebra. The first method from the Stanford team, BlockRank, offers the most significant gain, speeding up...
[May 27, 2003, 8:48]
Scaling Google's Peaks
News The company recently renewed an exclusive PageRank license from Stanford that's valid until 2011. Some computer scientists suspect that PageRank is dead, because Internet marketers have managed to exploit it by creating false popularity for their...
[May 11, 2004, 15:00]
The Magic That Makes Google Tick
News Hölzle believes the PageRank algorithm is 'relatively' spam resistant, and those interested in exactly how it works can find more information here. This knowledge is encapsulated in Google's famous PageRank algorithm, which looks not just at the...
[December 1, 2004, 11:15]
Google Seeks Better Business Sales
News For example, the company's PageRank system, licensed exclusively from Stanford University, looks at link structures of pages on the Web as a hint to their relevance. PageRank is widely considered the key to Google's early success, although it has...
[June 2, 2004, 9:15]
Google's Enterprise Search Finally Reaches UK
News For example, the company's PageRank system, licensed exclusively from Stanford University, looks at the link structures of pages on the Web as a hint to their relevance. PageRank is widely considered the key to Google's early success, although it...
[October 20, 2004, 15:10]
Groxis Plugs Google Hole
News This plug-in will allow users to map Google results into a form that is usable for educators, students and researchers, where long lists of search results, organised by PageRank (Google's algorithm), cannot provide that capability or value," said...
[December 18, 2003, 15:00]

