Many other HITS-based algorithms have also been published. The most famous and powerful of these algorithms is the PageRank algorithm. Invented by Google co-founder Larry Page, this algorithm is used by Google to organize the results of its search function. This algorithm helps determine the relative importance of any particular web page by counting the number and quality of links to a page. The websites with more number of links, and/or more links from higher-quality websites, will be ranked higher. It works in a similar way as determining the status of a person in a society of people. Those
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