The Invention of Page Ranking
As their thesis topic at Stanford University, Page and Brin chose the classification of search engine results from the Web. The subject may sound abstract or esoteric to some, but everyone involved in search at the time was focused on it.
Searching for information on electronic media is a field that goes back a long way, perhaps to July 1945 and the publication of Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" in The Atlantic Monthly.
Gerard Salton is thought to be the father of modern search, having developed the System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text (SMART) Information Retrieval System at Cornell University in the 1960s. Since then, software engineers have worked with librarians and documentation specialists ...
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