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 ...

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) .

That left little reason to get the Google Toolbar, not that you could — Google never released a version for Chrome. PageRank in the toolbar took other blows. Firefox support was dropped in 2011.

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 is giving itself the digital equivalent of 100 lashes by downgrading the search result ranking of the company’s own Web browser, Google Chrome, for 60 days.

Or in other words, the importance of the eigenvector is that PageRank is an iterative algorithm. The more times you repeat the calculation, the closer you get to the most accurate numbers. PageRank ...

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 ...

Searches for “browser” no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google’s own sponsored post campaign.. Google said even ...

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.

A computational chemist at Washington State University has adapted Google's seminal search algorithm, PageRank, so that instead of mapping trillions of web pages it maps out the shapes and ...