Page, who will turn 38 about a week before taking over, invented the original formula for Google's effective and secret online search algorithm while studying at Stanford University.

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Research conducted by Adi Shamir, one of the pioneers of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography which forms the basis of online security today indicates that bitcoin markets indicated that all the large bitcoin transactions over the past few years seem to have the same originating source, related to a single large transaction that took place in November 2010.

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The cause of the dispute: After Taobao modified its sorting algorithm to favor those sellers with the highest ratings from buyers, some retailers cried out because their online storefronts no longer showed up near the top of search results.

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