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  Who’s #1?: The science of rating and ranking
Langville A., Meyer C., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691162-31-7)

The ranking/rating process is deeply embedded in human nature and our everyday lives. Whenever we need to make a decision that involves more than one alternative, such as buying a product, voting for a candidate, presenting a list of w...
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Aug 13 2014  
  Who’s #1?: The science of rating and ranking
Langville A., Meyer C., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2012. 266 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691154-22-0)

As an award-winning 2007 advertising campaign by a German auto manufacturer emphasized, we love making lists. We make “best of” lists of places to visit, favorite movies, athletes, academic institutions, and great c...
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Oct 25 2012  
  Google’s PageRank and beyond: the science of search engine rankings
Langville A., Meyer C., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 234 pp.  Type: Book (9780691122021), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Two mathematicians’ view of what is most interesting about Web search engines is presented in this book. Because the authors teach linear algebra, they are most interested in the matrix formulations of algorithms that determi...
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Feb 5 2007  
  Google’s PageRank and beyond: the science of search engine rankings
Langville A., Meyer C., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 234 pp.  Type: Book (9780691122021), Reviews: (1 of 2)

The Google search engine is rooted in a novel strategy proposed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, from Stanford University, in 1996. That strategy ranks search results based on the number of links to the page, rather than on the number of...
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Dec 6 2006  

   
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