Page Rank
Linear Digressions - A podcast by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone
Categories:
The year: 1998. The size of the web: 150 million pages. The problem: information retrieval. How do you find the "best" web pages to return in response to a query? A graduate student named Larry Page had an idea for how it could be done better and created a search engine as a research project. That search engine was called Google.