Date: 08/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, google

Finally a clean-room implementation of Google’s Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) { // start off with a random low PR int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3); if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/clean-room-implementation-of-google-page-rank-algorithm/