Google's PageRank algorithm is the idea that the importance of a webpage can be measured by the number of important papers that point towards it. Sergey Brin? and Larry Page? applied the process to search engine rankings in 1998 and have since modified it in various ways that have maintained Google's position as the world's leading search engine.
Given the company's huge success, it is no surprise that there is enormous interest in finding algorithms that outperform PageRank.
Today, Giuseppe Paparo and Miguel Martín-Delgado at The Complutense University in Madrid reveal a contender- a quantum version of the original algorithm.
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