The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997) (opens in new tab)

Google of the past has severe doubts about Google of the present:

...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

> "There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. The full version is available on the web and the conference CD-ROM"

Does anyone have a link to the full version? I would love to read more in detail.. it is so inspiring

I think after E=MC2 , The PageRank algorithm "PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))" is the formula which changed the entire world..

Love this. The first sentence is still very telling:

In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext.

I remember citing this article in my thesis and thinking "damn has it been 10 years already". I was 23 back then. :|

Thinking of the PageRank algorithm as a eigenvalue problem was one of the few 'things' that were a real eye opener for me and allowed me to actually connect maths and computer science for these practical purposes.

"So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search" Wow!

I agree, the first statement was captivating. It's nostalgic and yet, a form of forecasting in it's own right, what becomes future technology in this architecture

Reading this is like time travel.