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In the search engine of Google, the PageRank algorithm plays a crucial role in ranking the search results. The algorithm quantifies the importance of each web page based on the link structure of the web. We first provide an overview of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

There are several ideas being used today for Web information retrieval, and specifically in Web search engines. The PageRank algorithm is one of those that introduce a content-neutral ranking function over Web pages. This ranking is applied…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Giorgos Kollias , Efstratios Gallopoulos , Daniel B. Szyld

We review the main findings on the ranking capabilities of the recently proposed Quantum PageRank algorithm (G.D. Paparo et al., Sci. Rep. 2, 444 (2012) and G.D. Paparo et al., Sci. Rep. 3, 2773 (2013)) applied to large complex networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 G. D. Paparo , M. Müller , F. Comellas , M. A. Martin-Delgado

PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

The PageRank is a widely used scoring function of networks in general and of the World Wide Web graph in particular. The PageRank is defined for directed graphs, but in some special cases applications for undirected graphs occur. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Vince Grolmusz

Google's PageRank has created a new synergy to information retrieval for a better ranking of Web pages. It ranks documents depending on the topology of the graphs and the weights of the nodes. PageRank has significantly advanced the field…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Ying Ding , Erjia Yan , Arthur Frazho , James Caverlee

The PageRank algorithm employed at Google assigns a measure of importance to each web page for rankings in search results. In our recent papers, we have proposed a distributed randomized approach for this algorithm, where web pages are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo , Er-Wei Bai

The PageRank algorithm employed by Google quantifies the importance of each page by the link structure of the web. To reduce the computational burden the distributed randomized PageRank algorithms (DRPA) recently appeared in literature…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Wenxiao Zhao , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang

We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relation through a stochastic equation inspired by the original definition…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-03 Yana Volkovich , Nelly Litvak , Debora Donato

HodgeRank generalizes ranking algorithms, e.g. Google PageRank, to rank alternatives based on real-world (often incomplete) data using graphs and discrete exterior calculus. It analyzes multipartite interactions on high-dimensional networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Behnam Tonekaboni , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

Complex networks have emerged as a simple yet powerful framework to represent and analyze a wide range of complex systems. The problem of ranking the nodes and the edges in complex networks is critical for a broad range of real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-30 Hao Liao , Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Ming-Yang Zhou

We study the typical behavior of a generalized version of Google's PageRank algorithm on a large family of inhomogeneous random digraphs. This family includes as special cases directed versions of classical models such as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Jiung Lee , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

PageRank has become a key element in the success of search engines, allowing to rank the most important hits in the top screen of results. One key aspect that distinguishes PageRank from other prestige measures such as in-degree is its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Santo Fortunato , Marian Boguna , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

We study the statistical properties of various directed networks using ranking of their nodes based on the dominant vectors of the Google matrix known as PageRank and CheiRank. On average PageRank orders nodes proportionally to a number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Leonardo Ermann , Alexei D. Chepelianskii , Dima L. Shepelyansky

This paper develops a generalization of the PageRank model of page centralities in the global webgraph of hyperlinks. The webgraph of adjacencies is generalized to a valued directed graph, and the scalar dampening coefficient for walks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Noah E. Friedkin

Node influence metrics have been applied to many applications, including ranking web pages on internet, or locations on spatial networks. PageRank is a popular and effective algorithm for estimating node influence. However, conventional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qiwei Ma , Zhaoya Gong

When we search online for content, we are constantly exposed to rankings. For example, web search results are presented as a ranking, and online bookstores often show us lists of best-selling books. While popularity-based ranking algorithms…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-28 Shilun Zhang , Matúš Medo , Linyuan Lü , Manuel Sebastian Mariani

On the case that the number of dangling nodes is large, PageRank computation can be proceeded with a much smaller matrix through lumping all dangling nodes of a web graph into a single node. Thus, it saves many computational cost and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Yongxin Dong , Yuehua Feng , Jianxin You , Jinrui Guan

The PageRank algorithm is used to rank web pages by their importance. Since its development, the PageRank algorithm is a critical and fundamental part of search engines today. PageRank is a graph-based algorithm that ranks pages based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Christopher Sims

The significance of the PageRank algorithm in shaping the modern Internet cannot be overstated, and its Complex Network theory foundations continue to be a subject of research. In this article we carry out a systematic study of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Gonzalo Contreras-Aso , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance