This document discusses Google's approach to combating spam in search results through the innovative application of the PageRank algorithm, which measures the importance of web pages based on link structure. It details the implementation of PageRank using Hadoop, highlighting matrix manipulations, challenges of dead ends and spider traps, and the use of MapReduce for efficient computation across large data sets. The results indicate that a small fraction of web pages holds a significant amount of PageRank importance, confirming the effectiveness of the algorithm in ranking relevancy.
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