Fwd: google search engine details

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded with permission from the author.
Roy

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>Date:         Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:13:57 -0400
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>From: "John A. Kunze" <jak at NLM.NIH.GOV>
>Subject:      google search engine details
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>For folks interested in a rare look behind-the-scenes at an internet-wide
>search engine -- the early Google engine -- there is a fascinating paper:
>
>    The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
>         by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (Stanford CS department)
>    http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm
>
>It very nicely explains the algorithms that Google used and the goal of
>creating an open, academic research engine as opposed to an advertizing-
>oriented engine with undisclosed ranking algorithms.
>
>Although it appears to date from April 1998, enough people I've talked
>to were unaware of it that posting a citation seemed useful.  To those
>who already use Google as their favorite search engine (myself included),
>this paper may be the one behind-the-scenes glimpse that you most want.
>
>-John
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