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Excerpt: It would be nice to be able to use mathematics in WordPress to write equations as easily as I can write this sentence, but I can’t. What are the options for someone writing a technical blog? LaTeX Plugin LaTeX is a popular choice in the scientific community. It uses a  code to typeset equations. The final document is a postscript or  pdf document to produce a well typeset beautiful looking documents. For the web, LaTeX equations can be converted to .gif images. WordPress also has a plugin which uses LaTeX to render the code as gif images within your post. You might think,…

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Excerpt: Introducing PageRank The one thing that made Google the most successful search engine in the world was way in which it chooses the results to show it users. PageRank is the method developed by Larry Page in 1995 and applied to the Google search engine in 1998. The method of sorts results depending on an algorithm with takes into account the number of links pointing toward a particular page. The basic premiss behind it being that a page with a greater number of links from similarly authoritative sites is likely to be a web site which has content related to…