The Age of PageRank is Over | Kagi Blog
related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they contain, rather than on each document’s importance.
Calvin Jones • Understanding Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation: Volume 1
The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s "PageRank", an objective measure of its citatio... See more
Larry Page • The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
number of the web page itself. “The idea behind PageRank was that you can estimate the importance of a web page by the web pages that link to it,”