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bhl on June 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's PageRank patent has expired

> his old research students

Who’s the subject of this sentence? I didn’t know PageRank had academic descendants.

What’s the current research on PageRank like? I looked at Sergey Brin’s academic page a couple months back and was surprised that people still work on nearest neighbors now and back then.

Irishsteve on June 3, 2019 [–]

Give networks crowds and markets a glance. It's a fun book. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/netwo...

But thats from Kleinberg - the person who I was referring to :-)

After that there is personalised page rank / Salsa which are probably the more widely known approaches to identifying trust worthy nodes in a graph.

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