Collection

Tag: web-search

Jon Kleinberg and HITS: Ranking Authorities and Hubs on the Web

Jon Kleinberg's HITS algorithm treated hyperlinks as mutually reinforcing evidence about authority and hub pages, making web ranking a problem in graph structure rather than text matching alone.

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AltaVista and the Engineering of a Web-Scale Full-Text Search Index

AltaVista combined a highly concurrent crawler, full-text indexing and DEC Alpha servers to make tens of millions of Web pages rapidly searchable in the mid-1990s.

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PageRank and the Decision to Rank the Web by Its Link Structure

PageRank treated hyperlinks as recursively weighted evidence of importance, giving early Google a global ranking signal that complemented ordinary textual relevance.

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