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PageRank
Iterate the random surfer on a tiny web. Add links and change damping.
Iterate the random surfer on a tiny web. Add links and change damping.
Tap a page, then tap another page to add or remove the link from the first to the second.
PageRank imagines a random surfer. With probability d they click a random link on the current page; otherwise they get bored and jump to any page at random. A page’s rank is the long-run fraction of time the surfer spends there, so links from important pages count for more, and a page’s vote is split across its out-links.
We find it by repeating the update rule until nothing changes (power iteration). A dangling page with no out-links shares its rank equally with all pages, so no rank leaks away and the ranks always sum to 1.
Jaipur has no out-links (dangling), so its rank is shared equally with all 5 pages.
PageRank imagines a random surfer. With probability d they click a random link on the current page; otherwise they get bored and jump to any page at random. A page’s rank is the long-run fraction of time the surfer spends there, so links from important pages count for more, and a page’s vote is split across its out-links.
We find it by repeating the update rule until nothing changes (power iteration). A dangling page with no out-links shares its rank equally with all pages, so no rank leaks away and the ranks always sum to 1.
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