I have found that the “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” paper i referenced to on june 8 was not the full version. The full paper including appendix A and B can be found here:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
I also found the actual paper on PageRank. I confused this one with the one above in the old post.
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/NetworkedLife/pagerank.pdf
Over the course of this week I read the upper paper you see here. It goes over some general topics but later also goes into the technical details of the 1996 Google prototype. I’ll have to reread that part to fully grasp and understand what is going on there. I must say it was an interesting read, especially seeing how they account for 90s and y2k issues that aren’t a concern for us anymore (e.g. keeping a certain worker under 256MB of RAM, which is nothing by today’s standards.)