A FEW software tweaks could make Google, the most popular search engine, even faster.
Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the importance of 3 billion Web pages by counting the number of links that lead to each one, a process that takes days. But 80 per cent of the pages on any given website link to other pages on the same site. A new algorithm designed by Sepandar Kamvar and colleagues at Stanford University scans these closed networks a few times, then glues the results together, making Google run faster.
The researchers present their findings this week at the Twelfth Annual World…
