Page Rank
algorithm for ranking results from a Search Engine that match the user's query
Relevance Ranking was an early approach
Google's Page Rank is based on sites being ranked by how many other sites point to them.
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this gets gamed a bit by Search EngineOptimization abusers
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not any more at the site-level, but more at keyword granularity
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