Maybe they invented PageRank earlier that Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

Hard to find information on the English-speaking internet, but looks like Yandex began to focus on link analysis only in 2004: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yandex.ru&#x2F;company&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;2004&#x2F;0326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yandex.ru&#x2F;company&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;2004&#x2F;0326&#x2F;</a>

What would you name algorithm that ranked pages? Same name doesn’t mean that it is the same algorithm to Google’s link weighting one.<p>Also, PageRank was invented in 1996 while Page and Brin were at Google.