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> The much acclaimed PageRank algorithm, I stopped reading here. Really, do people still believe that PageRank has any significant weight in the complex rankin

• franze 16y ago
  i read the whole piece, but you did the right thing, the article is stupid, without any noteworthy information and it seems to be based on fairy tales.
• ot 16y ago
  Just to clarify, because of the downmods. Search engines rank the pages according to a variety of (hundreds) "signals", some of which are global (PageRank, ...), some "local" (local link structure, page quality, ...) and some measuring the relevancy of the page for the query (BM25, ...). All these signals are blended together usually with a function which is regressed using some machine learning algorithm, to fit human judgements and (possibly) click data. Look for "learning to rank" on Google Scholar for details, there are papers by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Google itself admits that PageRank is not very relevant (http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--crawling--indexing---ranking#pagerank http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--craw...): > [...] worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked.