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   strange

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 27th, 2003 @ 11:56am

   
   

   First of all, an algorithm called HITS predates pagerank, and both are based on the interconnectivity of the web. It's similar enough that you could describe it in the same terms from the article "improved search engine that refines a document's relevance score based on interconnectivity of the document within a set of relevant documents."
   
   Second of all, Brin and Page (the founders of Google) deserve the credit--they're the ones who made Google and Google's original pagerank algorithm. Why does Krishna Barat get it?
   
   

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   Re: strange

   

   PaulR, Feb 27th, 2003 @ 8:40pm

   
   

   This is different than the original PageRank patent--they already have a patent on that. The fact that Google hasn't gotten aggressive with their current patent bodes well. Maybe they only want the patent for defensive purposes. Seems like they understand that technology trumps attorneys..

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