Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940sGoogle’s PageRank algorithm was developed in 1998. But a project to trace the history of such algorithms reveals an example from the 1940s. The PageRank algorithm is a key part of Google’s method of ranking web pages in search results. It uses the network of links between web pages to determine their value and, famously, judges a page to be important if it is linked to by other important pages. On
