The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The amount of information on the web is  growing rapidly, as well as the number of new users inexperienced in the art of web research. People are  likely to surf the web using its link graph, often starting with high quality human maintained indices  such as Yahoo! or with sea... See more

The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing  web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a  significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s "PageRank", an  objective measure of its citatio... See more

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of  the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For  example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of  Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver At... See more