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The blog post credits Google founders for PageRank but probably the credit should go to Baidu instead.

Check the history section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank



The history section mentions the work of Baidu’s founder as somewhat related to PageRank in that it scores based on links. Work of others are also mentioned in the same section as “influential” for the development of PageRank.

If we just trace back bibliographic references to decide on the inventor of PageRank, it will probably be Archimedes.


Yeah if Archimedes built a competing search engine that uses link ranking algorithms sure.




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