Jan
26
Structural Vs Organic: the Search paradigm!
We all kneel to Google search paradigm. The paradigm is based on the study of the relational structure between pages that is created by the complex network of links.
The idea came to Larry when he mapped (in his mind) hyperlinks to citations and web-pages to peer-reviewed papers. Basically, he adapted the ranking concept used within the scientific community (i.e. the number of citations a scientist has for his papers) to rank the internet pages (i.e. the number of links that directs to a given internet page). Thus was born the PageRank concept. At the time (1995) there was still no easy way to tell how many links an internet page had pointing at it. The merit of Larry (and Sergei) was to actually craft a working crawler that would collect and retrieve this information. Well...
The idea came to Larry when he mapped (in his mind) hyperlinks to citations and web-pages to peer-reviewed papers. Basically, he adapted the ranking concept used within the scientific community (i.e. the number of citations a scientist has for his papers) to rank the internet pages (i.e. the number of links that directs to a given internet page). Thus was born the PageRank concept. At the time (1995) there was still no easy way to tell how many links an internet page had pointing at it. The merit of Larry (and Sergei) was to actually craft a working crawler that would collect and retrieve this information. Well...