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Google PageRank algorithm
From the course: Machine Learning Foundations: Linear Algebra
Google PageRank algorithm
- [Instructor] PageRank is the core of the Google search engine algorithm. It is synonymous for link popularity, link value, link equity, and authority. How does it work? According to Google, it counts the number and quality of the links to a page to determine how important the webpage is, the important it is. The more important a web page is, it is more likely to receive more links from other web pages. The most important part of the PageRank algorithm is to discover the best way to calculate the importance of each page that is returned by the query results. We have to calculate the probability. This is a number from zero to one that can quantify the importance of a particular page. Google's PageRank system assigns a value called a PageRank to every page in its network of webpages. In the case a page has a high PageRank it will appear earlier in the search result. Each PageRank is calculated by the number of…
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