ProgramErgoSum
November 26th, 2009, 04:27 AM
Considering only page ranking in general (and not THE PageRank of Google), I am not able to appreciate page ranking vis-a-vis a RDBMS approach. For example, if a RDBMS database table with two columns (Source and Target) is maintained, then the co-relation of all web pages could be maintained in this table. Once this is done, it is not really a huge task to write a SQL query to get the Target with the highest number of Sources.
Of course, I am talking of a highly simplified scenario here. Say, just four pages linking amongst themselves, no redirects, no dangling links, nothing done to artificially inflate the rank, etc.
So, what does page rank (PR(u) below) offer more ?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/c/4/ac48cfa215bf51c9cab4b92df790674b.png
PageRank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank).
Of course, I am talking of a highly simplified scenario here. Say, just four pages linking amongst themselves, no redirects, no dangling links, nothing done to artificially inflate the rank, etc.
So, what does page rank (PR(u) below) offer more ?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/c/4/ac48cfa215bf51c9cab4b92df790674b.png
PageRank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank).