An Improved Computation of the PageRank Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Sung Jin Kim;Sang Ho Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research: Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The Google search site (http://www.google.com) exploits the link structure of the Web to measure the relative importance of Web pages. The ranking method implemented in Google is called PageRank [3]. The sum of all PageRank values should be one. However, we notice that the sum becomes less than one in some cases. We present an improved PageRank algorithm that computes the PageRank values of the Web pages correctly. Our algorithm works out well in any situations, and the sum of all PageRank values is always maintained to be one. We also present implementation issues of the improved algorithm. Experimental evaluation is carried out and the results are also discussed.