Rudolf Wittkower versus Le Corbusier: A Matter of Proportion

Abstract

This paper presents Google, which was a prototype of a large-scale search engine at that time. The ideas in this paper was a game changer and it has become one of the most influential papers in the history of IR. This paper lacks the evaluation of the search engine in terms of user experience and precision and recall, but we already know how this proposed system changed not only the search engine market but also our everyday life. I learned actual structure and general programming facts of Google including the language it used and the process of indexing, searching, and the distributed data structure (barrels). One thing I could not understand in the paper was how PageRanks form a probability distribution and correspond to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web. I like to know more about this part and see some actual web page examples.