But that wasn’t the case until 1998 when PageRank was released as an addition to Google’s original algorithm. PageRank changed everything – suddenly, websites could be ranked based on their ...

PageRank is a Google algorithm for ranking pages based on the flow of authority via links, created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. PageRank was once at the very core of search – and was what made ...

Google still uses something similar to PageRank, but the algorithm is undoubtedly much more complex and intelligent. Back to the Washington State discovery (Opens in a new window) .

At the heart of Google’s software is the PageRank algorithm. It ranks how important a web page is by counting the number of links that lead to it, with links from a page that itself receives a ...

Google's algorithm for ranking web pages can be adapted to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems, say researchers. According to a paper in PLoS Computational Biology, ...