The Power of PageRank Explained

Imagine opening a door into a universe where billions of pages float in a vast digital cosmos,

each one shouting for your attention, each one trying to tell you it matters. Now imagine being

dropped into that universe in the mid-1990s, before Google existed, when the web was

transforming into an uncontrollable explosion of documents, and finding anything—literally anything—felt like

wandering through an infinite library with no card catalog, no map, and no lights.

That chaotic universe is where our story begins, and where two graduate students at Stanford

quietly built an idea so influential that it would become the gravitational force of the early

web, reorganizing the entire digital world and launching one of the most powerful