PageRank
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Chapter Objectives
1. What PageRank is, in plain everyday language — no maths background needed to start.
2. Why Google needed PageRank, and the simple “voting” idea underneath it.
3. The four repeating steps that make the algorithm work.
4. How to calculate PageRank scores by hand on a tiny 4-page example.
5. How to read the real PageRank formula, piece by piece.
6. Where PageRank is used today, and what its limitations are.
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Exercise
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Revision Lesson
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