[jlukecarlson]

Interesting article, would have been helpful when I was writing a paper on Google PageRank since it is a markov chain. I do think it would be valuable to talk about equilibrium distributions and how you can determine the tendency of the system

[cpeterso]

How does PageRank use Markov Chains? That's an interesting idea.

[pedrosorio]

It models the web as a Markov Chain where web pages are states and the transitions are the outgoing links.

[jlukecarlson]

Exactly and the actual page rank of the site comes from finding the equilibrium distribution from the transition matrix, which in this case is called a Google matrix.