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PageRank

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PageRank

The name of Google's page ranking system. See page ranking and Google.



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student, came to Mejia's office of technology licensing to patent his search engine software, called PageRank.
These days, even Google, the "ethical" search engine with the company motto "Don't Be Evil," is now focusing most of its attention on ad placement, either through its own search pages or through "contextual links" on other content pages (a practice that undermines the very integrity of its own PageRank algorithm).
The value determined in this way is called a page's PageRank and determines its placement in search results (Brin & Page, 1998; Google, 2004; Marlow, 2001-2002).
 
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