Google, for instance, has a patent from 1998 on ranking websites in search results by the number of other sites linking to them.

例如，谷歌公司有一个从1998年开始的专利，专利内容是各顶级网站搜索结果与其它网站链接数量。

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In 1996 he received a patent related to what he called link analysis, a way to rank search listings by the number of incoming links to sites.

1996年，他获得了他命名为链接分析的专利技术，通过访问来源的数量对搜索结果进行排名。

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