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		rocqua on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's PageRank patent has expired The patent is only for web search, so other applications dont infringe the patent.

bbrb on June 1, 2019 [–]

First sentence of the abstract of the patent:

"A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database."

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