| Most everyone that is making websites has a close | | | | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| look at PageRank and its importance to SEO. The | | | | NASA.gov - NASA, U.S. government agency |
| world is controlled by Google right now (The World | | | | NSF.gov - National Science Foundation, U.S. |
| Wide Web anyways) and PageRank is actually a | | | | government |
| term created by Google. | | | | - RealPlayer |
| Many people have spent incredible amounts of time | | | | - tracking service |
| trying to come up with formula that is used to | | | | W3.org - World Wide Web Consortium |
| calculate PageRank and some believe they have it | | | | Whitehouse.gov - The White House |
| pretty well figured out. In general terms, PageRank is | | | | The Google Toolbar's PageRank feature displays a |
| an analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical value | | | | visited page's PageRank as a whole number between |
| to each type of hyperlinked element in a document, | | | | 0 and 10. The most popular websites have a |
| specifically on the World Wide Web. The reason the | | | | PageRank of 10. The least have a PageRank of 0. |
| PageRanking even exists is to assign an importance | | | | Google has not disclosed the precise method for |
| value or PageRank to the document being evaluated. | | | | determining a Toolbar PageRank value, |
| The element is denoted as E, and the acronym for | | | | As indicated on Wikipedia (which by the way has a |
| PageRank is denoted at PR, thus PR(E) | | | | PR 7)"The name "PageRank" is a trademark of |
| The PageRank Assumption: "The assumption that all | | | | Google, and the PageRank process has been |
| the outgoing links in a Web page are followed by a | | | | patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the |
| random surfer uniformly randomly is unrealistic. In | | | | patent was assigned to Stanford University and not |
| reality, links can be classified into different groups, | | | | to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the |
| some of which are followed rarely if at all (e.g., | | | | patent from Stanford University. The university |
| disclaimer links). | | | | received 1.8 million shares in Google in exchange for |
| Such "internal links" are known to be less reliable and | | | | use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for |
| more self-promotional than "external links" yet are | | | | $336 million." PageRank was created at Stanford |
| often weighted equally. Attempts to assign weights | | | | University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as part of |
| to links based on IR similarity measures have been | | | | a research project for a new type of search engine. |
| made but are not widely used." | | | | They began in 1995 and led to a functional |
| Here is a list of the Top Ranking Website, all at a PR | | | | prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly thereafter, |
| 10 | | | | Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company |
| - Adobe Systems | | | | behind the Google search engine. There are many |
| Apache.org - Apache Software Foundation | | | | factors that go into the search ranking of Websites, |
| - Apple Computer | | | | PageRank will continue to be foundation for all of |
| - Cisco Systems | | | | Google's web search tools for the foreseeable future |
| CSAIL - MIT's Computer Science and Artificial | | | | until the next new thing. For SEO package |
| Intelligence Laboratory | | | | information, also see SEO packages, search engine |
| Energy.gov - United States Department of Energy | | | | optimization package, SEO prices, SEO price, Search |
| ERCIM.org - European Research Consortium for | | | | engine optimization price, Search engine optimization |
| Informatics and Mathematics | | | | prices, Search engine optimization cost, SEO cost, |
| - Google, search engine that assigns PageRank | | | | Search Engine Optimization Company, Search Engine |
| Keio.ac.jp - Keio University, Tokyo, Japan | | | | Optimization Consultant, Search Engine Marketing |
| - International Business Machines | | | | Consultants, Search Engine Marketing Consultant, SEO |
| - Macromedia | | | | Quote, and SEO Quotes. |
| - Microsoft Corporation | | | | |