Yahoo, Page Rank and Teleportation Oh My!

This post is from from my other blog here

Say hello to Yahoo's Personalized PageRank Well I can’t say that I had envisioned myself talking about a PageRank Patent… FROM YAHOO!…. at least not anytime soon. The last time I looked at a PageRank filing (/search-engines/algorithm-matters/tale-of-the-two-pagerank-patents.html) it was from you know who, not Yahoo… But it would seem that’s exactly what we have on the menu today; For your dining pleasure; User Sensitive PageRank (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080010281.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080010281RS=DN/20080010281)My original curiosity was helped out to no end when everyone’s favourite technical search guru (http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=977)informed me that one of the authors ( Pavel Berkhin ) had also worked on; A Survey on PageRank Computing (2005 - PDF (http://www.internetmathematics.org/volumes/2/1/Berkhin.pdf)) and Link Spam Detection on Mass Estimation (2006 - PDF (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~zoltan/publications/gyongyi2006link.pdf)) .User Segmented Personalized PageRankAt first read, it seemed as though they were looking to integrate user performance metrics as a layer onto the ever popular probabilistic/nodal modelling of PageRank. Of course I had to...