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by degamad 53 days ago
Search was not novel, but PageRank was novel.
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philipnee 53 days 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.

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wjeje 53 days ago
Correct
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