Buying links is unnecessary now that Google relies less on links and more on content and user-behavior signals to rank ...

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.

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) .

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 ...

Is Google's PageRank Algorithm Still Important For Google Search Rankings? Oct 29, 2018 - 8:34 am 9 — by Barry Schwartz ...

PageRank always was and remains only one part of the Google search algorithm, the system that determines how to rank pages. There are many other ranking factors that are also considered.

Fighting Cancer With the Google PageRank Algorithm. Sort Of. By Jason Bittel. March 27, 2013 12:02 PM. The Cancer Research U.K. Cambridge Institute. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid - WPA Pool/Getty Images.

Researchers have used the Google PageRank algorithm to determine bonds between molecules without costly and expensive lab-based experiments.

One familiar algorithm for this is Google's PageRank, which is (obviously) computationally expensive; it is impossible with current technology to extend it to the whole Web.

In the last few days, Google has developed a new algorithm that detects merchants who provide (in Google’s opinion) bad customer service, and penalizes them in Google’s PageRank.