Google PageRank: how search engines `bring order to the Web'
A crucial innovation of Google was a mathematically quite simple but powerful algorithm called PageRank.
Category Archives: The internet
The quantum Internet - A glimpse into the future
"Look it up on the Internet!" - How Web Search Works
Whatever we want to know - from scientific discovery to home renovation - the answer is usually the same: `Look…
Degrees in graphs IV: degrees in large real-world networks
How are elements in real-world networks connected? That is the question we aim to answer in this post. Most real-world…
Complex Networks: an online course for Dutch high-school students.
In recent years, the University of Amsterdam has been offering online courses (webklassen) aimed at high school students. These courses…
Word usages reflect network community structure on Twitter
Networks can be found everywhere, and are also present in social media platforms such as Twitter. On Twitter, users can…
Why the whole world has seen Gangnam style
Have you ever wondered what makes a video go viral? Or how it is possible that they can spread so…
Lo & Behold: Werner Herzog’s take on the Internet
![Source =https://www.flickr.com/photos/zaffi/13522787904/ |Author =[https://www.flickr.com/people/46958049@N00 Raffi Asdourian] from New York, United States](https://www.networkpages.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Werner_herzog_portrait-337x225.jpg)
Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s documentaries are instantly recognizable by their slow, Germanically inflected voice-over, which champions the bleakest of world-views. Here…