PageRank

“The insight that powered Google was PageRank. It was a way of harnessing the power of the entire internet to figure out what was popular and what was not. But PageRank ran out of juice. Like in six years, like 2004 or five. And while Google never really liked …”

“I think Rajiv's work in fundamental computer science, in theoretical computer science, has led to many algorithms, actually. One of which turned out to be PageRank and AnchorText, and those two algorithms powered the search that ultimately became Google.”

“And it might be that like, that data ends up more valuable because you, everything that's linked to a lot, you've already got. Like at some point, you're maybe like going for the tails, or you're going for the stuff that no one's ever, like, you know, it's onl…”

“Judge Meta attempts to address number two necessary scale by forcing Google to share various types of data, including Google search index, but not the actual data from the web pages and the index or the output of Google's PageRank algorithm. Competitors, which…”

“Most of the search that's in AI search is still traditional search, right? There's an AI model in front of it, but you're still using your sort of traditional, like, you know, text-based, like, BM-Five or TF-IDF or PageRank or what have you search algorithms u…”

“It is ironic that the things that were being ranked were web pages, because the actual page in page rank is named for Larry Page, not for the pages they would rank.”

“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…”

“They tried to sell PageRank to Yahoo for one million dollars and were rejected”

“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…”

“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.”

“The actual first algorithm that I put into production was very focused on anti manipulation. It was this kind of page rank variant but it didn't solve the problem of, you know, bias basically. So if there are some, if there are more users on one side, the, a p…”

“The link prediction objective can be seen as like a neural page rank, because what you're doing is you're predicting the links people share. And so if everyone is sharing some Paul Graham essay about fundraising, then like our model is more likely to predict i…”

“It's one of, like, PageRank is, like, one of, like, 900 factors now that go into a Google search result. The other 899 happened after they left Stanford.”

“The way that I think about maps are sort of, is that maps are kind of page rank for the real world.”

“I think there's a, there's an analogue when you look at what's happening with all the companies that are bidding for Nokia's here maps at the moment, that location in a sense is page rank for the real world.”

“We're kind of in a pre-pagerank phase for how people discover and engage stuff online. That's to say an app store now looks a lot like it looks a lot like Yahoo, right, two years ago.”

“As a consequence, we've also moved on from the single unified paradigm of Google, because Google is fundamentally about analyzing links and sending you to web pages, but if the internet is no longer just about web pages, then that PageRank model breaks down, j…”