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Gilbert: PageRank Is No Longer Google Search's Primary Differentiator
“PageRank really is the thing that got Google going, but that part of the algorithm isn't really the thing that's the main differentiable asset today.”
Yahoo rejected an offer to buy PageRank for $1 million
“They tried to sell PageRank to Yahoo for one million dollars and were rejected”
Rosenthal: Google split its search index into 64MB distributed chunks
“Google needed like the entire page to compute all the rankings and find the links, find the backlinks. They needed to architect Google with this huge distributed computing system. So the index was so big that it wouldn't fit on A single machine or a single ser…”
Backlink anchor text describes websites better than self-authored on-page text
“When someone is linking to you, they often do a better job of describing your website than you do on the page yourself. Anybody that's just sort of looking at your website to try to figure out, what's this about? The actual words on your website tend not to do…”