It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations. We wanted to annotate the web--build a system so that after you'd viewed a page you could click and see what smart comments other people had about it. But how do you decide who gets to annotate Yahoo? We needed to figure out how to choose which annotations people should look at, which meant that we needed to figure out which other sites contained comments we should classify as authoritative. Hence PageRank.

"Only later did we realize that PageRank was much more useful for search than for annotation..."

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Planet PDF describes new PDF workflow options [The Macintosh News Network]

Am I the only one who thinks this is sooo cool!?

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Are You Scared Stupid? Do Tell. Privacy International says security measures are getting more and more ridiculous. The organization invites the public to e-mail stories in a competition for the world's most pointless security measure. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

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Gatwick grenade suspect remanded. A man allegedly found with a live grenade after flying into Gatwick Airport from Venezuela is remanded in custody. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

Is this the Venezuela-Al Qaeda connection? The good thing about venezuelans joining terrorism groups is that it will make them so inefficient as to fail in every single attack... ":->"

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