A computational chemist at Washington State University has adapted Google's seminal search algorithm, PageRank, so that instead of mapping trillions of web pages it maps out the shapes and chemical ...

PageRank is a foundational algorithm that has significantly influenced the way search engines rank webpages by assessing both the quantity and quality of inbound links. The technique, originally ...

Trying to assess the importance of particular scientific papers has long been a tricky task. The current system relies on counting the number of times a paper is cited by others to determine how large ...

Personalized PageRank (PPR) algorithms have emerged as a cornerstone methodology in analysing and utilising the inherent structure of large-scale networks. By refining the classic PageRank concept to ...

Google will give priority to sites in organic page ranking that encrypt pages, content. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analysts, described the change in a post. In the ...

Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a Web site to rank high in a Google search. But even this president of a search engine optimization firm was blown away by a proposal he received at a search ...

This story has all the hallmarks of being utterly awesome: PageRank, one of the most significant inventions in recent history, has been converted by some Spanish computer scientists into a quantum ...

Sparse networks see a big boost, but whole Web still a slow crawl. How would you define "practical" quantum computers? D-Wave has quantum computers that it has made and sold (that focus on quantum ...