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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…”