Historical contribution
What Brin contributed
With Larry Page and collaborators, he helped build a search system that used links among Web pages as evidence for ranking, alongside crawling and text retrieval.
Why it mattered
Link analysis improved search quality at Web scale and helped Google become a dominant discovery and advertising platform.
Connected topics
Where this fits in ITEM
Evidence
Sources and further reading
- Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd, The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web, Stanford, 1998
Lawrence Page · 1998
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998
Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page · 1998