Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages – Michael NielsenThe PageRank algorithm is a great way of using collective intelligence to determine the importance of a webpage. There’s a big problem, though, which is that PageRank is difficult to apply to the web as a whole, simply because the web contains so many webpages. While just a few lines of code can be used to implement PageRank on collections of a few thousand webpages, it’s trickier to compute PageR
