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`The Early Google Papers: Rajeev Motwani's Contributions To
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`Posted Jun 6, 2009 by Michael Arrington (@arrington)
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`Larry Page and Sergey Brin have always given Professor Rajeev Motwani significant credit
`for helping them create what would eventually become Google. Today, as I say my
`personal goodbye to the man who helped so many people in our community, I'm also
`spending some time going back and reading some of the early papers that Rajeev co(cid:173)
`authored describing how PageRank could become the basis for a new kind of search
`engine.
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`In a 1998 paper called "What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket" Brin, Motwani, Page and
`Terry Winograd say " ... we have developed a global ranking of Web pages called Page Rank
`based on the link structure of the Web that has properties that are useful for search and
`navigation.. we have used Page Rank to develop a novel search engine called Google, which also
`makes heavy use of anchor text."
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`An even earlier paper in 1998 that the four co-authored called "The PageRank Citation
`Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web" went into much more detail on PageRank. "In this paper,
`we take advantage of the link structure of the Web to produce a global "importance" ranking of
`every web page. This ranking, called Page Rank, helps search engines and users quickly make
`sense of the vast heterogeneity of the World Wide Web."
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`Today much of what they wrote appears as little more than common sense. But in 1998 it
`was a revolutionary way of thinking. AltaVista, the leading search engine at the time,
`turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million, saying spam would make PageRank
`useless. Yahoo also declined to purchase Google, supposedly because they didn't want to
`focus on search, which only sent users away from Yahoo.com. So what seems obvious
`today was considered sort of meh by the leading technologists a decade ago.
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`The papers are embedded below.
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`EXHIBIT 2044
`Facebook, Inc. et al.
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`http://viewer .docstoc.com/
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`What can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket? -
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`http://viewer .docstoc.com/
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`The PageRank Otatlon Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web -
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