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by ig0rskee 6252 days ago
I wish I could call them up and ask, I stand corrected
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Well you can't call them but here is their paper on pagerank http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/

There is a short mention of previous work done with academic citation analysis and there is also a bit at the end about the original purpose of the algorithm (displaying ranked backlinks.)