Explorations with Google’s PageRank Algorithm

In this guided exploration project you will explore Google’s PageRank Algorithm.

Some very rough guidelines are given below to help you start thinking about the project: more details will be provided during discussions.

1. Read the AMS feature column “How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web’s Haystack” by David Austin to get a rough overview of some of the mathematics behind this.
2. Review linear iterative systems and the power method of computing eigenvalues.