An Ex-Google software engineer commented in a Hacker News discussion, discussing how Google works. Along the way he mentioned that Google no longer used the original PageRank algorithm. The Hacker ...

A former Google engineer named Jonathan Tang (LinkedIn profile) who worked at Google on search between 2009 and 2014 said Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. He said this in a Hacker News thread ...

PageRank is a foundational algorithm that has significantly influenced the way search engines rank webpages by assessing both the quantity and quality of inbound links. The technique, originally ...

Google's search engine fame came in part from its algorithm that rates Web pages based on links from other pages. Microsoft thinks people provide a better ranking method. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google started deploying a new toolbar update with an updated PageRank checksum algorithm (see this entry), but it didn't take them long to crack the new algorithm this time around (Google hasn't even ...

Computer science researchers at Stanford University have developed several new techniques for calculating Web-page rankings (as used in the Google search engine) five times faster. Google currently ...