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Comment by degamad

12 hours ago

Search was not novel, but PageRank was novel.

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philipnee  2 hours ago

was it actually? I don't know the full technical behind this but wiki does suggest: "A search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking.."

This is before Google.

wjeje  2 hours ago

Correct

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