What is Google Pagerank??

Google Pagerank

Page Rank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google web search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. 

PageRank is not Google's only algorithm that determines rankings in search results, but merely one of many factors used to determine ranking websites in search results pages for any given query.

 (-Wikipedia)

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated. 

PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.(-webworkshop)

PageRank is what Google uses to determine the importance of a web page. It's one of many factors used to determine which pages appear in search results.

Google PageRank, which is largely based upon the number and quality of backlinks a webpage has, is an important factor in how well a particular webpage ranks within the Google search results. (-about)

Google PageRank History

Back when Google was just getting started and was still called Backrub, Google's algorithm was mostly based upon PageRank to determine the order of results a user would get in response to a search query. The name PageRank has nothing to do with a web page at all.

Instead PageRank is named after one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page. Sergey Brin is the other co-founder of Google who helped to create the multi-billion dollar corporation that started out at Stanford University in a dorm room when both of them were still in college. Much confusion is caused by the fact that Larry's last name is Page and that PageRank is used when referring to a web page or web site's authority.

Back in the dim, dark ages of the internet, (1998), Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented an article at the World Wide Web Conference outlining a new way of analyzing websites based on their link relationships. They called this PageRank (based, believe it or not, on Larry Page's surname, not for the fact that it ranks web pages), and it still forms the basis for Google's search algorithms.

The fundamental idea of PageRank is: if we link to your site, that is like us making a recommendation for your site. We're saying your site is good. The more people you have recommending your website, the better your website must be. It's democracy in action — many people can't be wrong! 

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