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Thursday, March 17, 2011

an important bit of computing history: the first PageRank patent

You'll need to be both a lover of computing and of history to like this post:
Bill Slawski of SEObyTheSea published a lovely post, which describes the application to the US Patent and Trademark Office for PageRank's first patent and includes a copy of that application.
(PageRank, for those who aren't into Search, is Google's links-importance-assesment-algorithm which is the heart of Google's search engine).
Slawski was kind enough to describe PageRank's path, as other patents were requested along the years since the first one, and gave a quick description of the last patent requested.

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