Journal Club: Google PageRank and related eigenvector problems in info retrieval

For our first Journal Club of the academic year we'll be talking about the Google PageRank algorithm, and related eigenvector problems in information retrieval.

An overview of PageRank can be found below:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pdf

A very nice survey with PageRank and other eigenvector-based web information retrieval algorithms may be found here:
http://meyer.math.ncsu.edu/Meyer/PS_Files/Survey.pdf

Also - a quick explanation of the Power Method for computing eigenvalues/vectors

http://ergodic.ugr.es/cphys/LECCIONES/FORTRAN/power_method.pdf