Brin and Page: a large-scale hypertextual web search engine

What changed

A link-aware, large-scale web-search prototype made a new retrieval architecture concrete.

Scientific scope

The two-author 1998 paper; individual PageRank antecedents, other search engines and later Google products are separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the two-author 1998 paper, not every component of PageRank, the entire development of web search or later Google deployment.

Contributors

• Sergey Brin · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Lawrence Page · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Google Research: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

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