Bill Slawski published an article noting that Google updated a patent related to PageRank. This is an important algorithm because it affects how sites are ranked and explains why some sites rank well ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...

An Ex-Google software engineer commented in a Hacker News discussion, discussing how Google works. Along the way he mentioned that Google no longer used the original PageRank algorithm. The Hacker ...

This week, Google marks its 15-year anniversary and the team brought members of the media to the original Google House to talk about the future of the company. During the press conference, it unveiled ...

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 ...

Back in June I reported on how Google's Checksum algorithm was backwards engineered. Since then, dozens of PageRank tools became available. There has been a few backlink updates at Google since the ...

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 ...

It's easy to create a blacklist of sites that have initiated malware attacks on a server, and use that to configure a firewall to prevent further problems. But these blacklists are purely ...