Paper by Sergey Brin presenting a technique which exploits the duality between sets of patterns and relations to grow the target relation, starting from a small sample.
Paper by Min Fang, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Rajeev Motwani, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, developing efficient execution strategies for a class of queries which perform an aggregate function over an attribute (or set of attributes) and the...
PhD thesis by Kahn Mason on methods of discovering groups of websites that collude to boost their reputations, distorting the results of the PageRank algorithm. Stanford University.
United States Patent 7, 058, 628, granted to Lawrence Page, which incorporates material from two earlier patents relating to the PageRank system used by Google.
This paper by Sepandar Kamvar, Taher Haveliwala, and Gene Golub describes an algorithm to speed up the computation of PageRank using the fact that pages converge at different rates.
This paper by Sepandar Kamvar and Taher Haveliwala proves analytically the second eigenvalue of the Google Matrix, which has implications for the PageRank algorithm.