The Google Algorithm Revealed Again

February 27, 2010

Most of the Sergey-and-Larry-eat-pizza books about Google talk about PageRank. I take a look at most of the descriptions, but the PageRank algorithm requires digging through Google technical papers and Google patent documents for factoids. PageRank is now 11 and it has morphed and, like a snowball, picked up some useful functionality over the last decade. You can get a recent summary in the ISEdb.com article “How Google’s Algorithm Works (or at Least Some Hints.”

Stephen E Arnold, February 26, 2010

No one paid me to write this article. Since I mentioned “pizza”, this statement of non payment goes to the top brass at the Department of Agriculture, whose logo may appear on US, factory-produced pizzas in the local grocery.

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One Response to “The Google Algorithm Revealed Again”

  1. Chris Chong on June 21st, 2010 4:23 am

    well I guess it’s a never ending chase to understand the google algorithm :p

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