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Eigenvectors / From the Mathematical Sciences to . . . an IPO
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... . an IPO I n 1997, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page were graduate students at Stanford, they wrote a short paper about an experimental search engine that they called Google.
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... Singular value decomposition (SVD) is a purely mathematical technique to pick out characteristic features in a giant array of data by finding eigenvectors.
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... . The company publicly released an anonymized database of 100 million past ratings by nearly half a "to google" had million users so that competitors could test their algorithms on real data.
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... By building up artificial networks of links, spammers undercut the underlying assumption that a Web link represents a human judgment about the value of a Web page. While Google has refined the PageRank algorithm many times over to ferret out fake links, keeping ahead of the spammers is an ongoing mathematical science challenge.


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