d2r: google and pagerank

google and pagerank

"Feeding the query string 'http' to Google causes it to barf up all the pages in its database in order of their PageRank value.

Interesting. Almost certainly related to the fact that all pages have "http" in them. Sounds like using that someone with time and energy to spare could figure out at least partially what PageRank does.

Categories: technology
Posted by diego on November 12 2002 at 12:28 AM

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I submitted it to boingboing, from JOHO, and David Weinberger got it from a newsgroup :)

Posted by: Jeff Winkler at November 12, 2002 1:08 AM