@techreport{ilprints596, number = {2003-35}, month = {June}, author = {Taher Haveliwala and Sepandar Kamvar and Glen Jeh}, title = {An Analytical Comparison of Approaches to Personalizing PageRank}, type = {Technical Report}, publisher = {Stanford}, institution = {Stanford InfoLab}, year = {2003}, url = {http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/596/}, abstract = {PageRank, the popular link-analysis algorithm for ranking web pages, assigns a query and user independent estimate of "importance" to web pages. Query and user sensitive extensions of PageRank, which use a basis set of biased PageRank vectors, have been proposed in order to personalize the ranking function in a tractable way. We analytically compare three recent approaches to personalizing PageRank and discuss the tradeoffs of each one.} }