We are going back to search-engine technology for next class and will discuss authorities/hubs and page-rank appraoches for page importance.
The required reading is the relevant sections from
http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse494/notes/ch2.pdfyou are also welcome to read the optional readings or Kleinberg's JACM paper and Page/Brin/Motwani's unplublished pagerank paper.
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