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EPISODE · Jun 5, 2017 · 19 MIN

Page Rank

from Linear Digressions · host Katie Malone

The year: 1998. The size of the web: 150 million pages. The problem: information retrieval. How do you find the "best" web pages to return in response to a query? A graduate student named Larry Page had an idea for how it could be done better and created a search engine as a research project. That search engine was called Google.

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