• jaek@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You’ve actually got it backwards. The ranking algorithm (rankdex) developed by one of the engineers that founded Baidu was published in 1996, two years before pagerank. Some of Google’s early patents actually cite the rankdex algo.

      Not like it matters here

      Cope