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The anatomy of Google

4th January 2003

Every now and then I stumble across this and then lose it again, so I’m blogging it for safe keeping. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine is the research paper that kicked off the Google phenomenon, and despite its age still provides a great insight in to how the world’s favourite search engine works (or used to work).

Posted 4th January 2003 at 8:39 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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