Reading How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack I was surprised by the simplicity of the math underlying the google PageRank algorithm, and the ease with which it seemed to be efficiently implementable. Being able to do a google-style ranking seems useful for a wide range of cases, and since I had wanted to take a look at python for numerics for some time, I decided to give it a shot (note that there already exists a python implementation using the numarray module).
Once I learned about Python, I stopped trying out different languages
