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.

this gets gamed a bit by Search EngineOptimization abusers
not any more at the site-level, but more at keyword granularity

Edited: 2010-07-09 00:00:00 | Tweet this! | Search Twitter for discussion

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