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 chemical ...

PageRank is a foundational algorithm that has significantly influenced the way search engines rank webpages by assessing both the quantity and quality of inbound links. The technique, originally ...

Google will give priority to sites in organic page ranking that encrypt pages, content. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analysts, described the change in a post. In the ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A few weeks ago my ...

Trying to assess the importance of particular scientific papers has long been a tricky task. The current system relies on counting the number of times a paper is cited by others to determine how large ...

Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a Web site to rank high in a Google search. But even this president of a search engine optimization firm was blown away by a proposal he received at a search ...

Who owns the patent to Google's original search algorithm? To find the answer, we used Google's search algorithm, and the answer is Stanford University. According to Quara user Tom McFarlane, "The ...