Stanford paper by Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd, describing PageRank as a static ranking, performed at indexing time, which interprets a link as a vote. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats.
First Stanford paper about PageRank. It is a static ranking, performed at indexing time, which interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Web is seen as a direct graph and votes recursively propagate from nodes to nodes....