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PageRank Method for node ranking in a linked database. By Lawrence Page ( Stanford University ). United States Patent and Trademark Office. United States Patent number 6,285,999. September 4, 2001. Lawrence "Larry" Page, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. The subject of the patent is PageRank. Google describes PageRank: "PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results. PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote ( link ), as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance". Competitive intelligence about signals the engines might use and how they might order results is also available through patent applications made by the major engines to the United States Patent Office. Perhaps the most famous among these is the system that spawned Google’s genesis in the Stanford dormitories during the late 1990’s – PageRank – documented as Patent number 6285999 – Method for node ranking in a linked database.
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