Centrality measures: who is the most important in a network?
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In this article, we discuss several ways to quantify the importance of nodes in a network. We will discuss how a simple game can help study this special property, and how it can help us in cases like reducing fake news.
Google PageRank: how search engines `bring order to the Web'
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A crucial innovation of Google was a mathematically quite simple but powerful algorithm called PageRank.
"Look it up on the Internet!" - How Web Search Works
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In this article we will have a look at how search engines work. What happens when you type the query in the famous, almost magical, Google's white page? And what does it have to do with networks?