There was once a time when there was no SEO metric more important than PageRank. You could buy it. You could sell it. And that was the problem Google created for themselves when they gave us pesky ...

How reliable is Google's beloved PageRank based search algorithm formula? Google blogger Matt Cutts points to a fellow Googler blog post, that of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Cutts’ ...

Google's search engine fame came in part from its algorithm that rates Web pages based on links from other pages. Microsoft thinks people provide a better ranking method. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google is giving itself the digital equivalent of 100 lashes by downgrading the search result ranking of the company’s own Web browser, Google Chrome, for 60 days. The decision came after recent ...

Longtime firebreather and former citypages.com managing editor Mark Gisleson is having a bit of sport with his old employer by noting its Google PageRank (4 of 10) is now lower than his one-man site’s ...

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Google's John Mueller said that even in 2020 Google does "use PageRank internally." He added that it is one of among many other signals Google uses. But Google does not use domain authority, a metric ...

The judge granted Google's motion to dismiss a suit by KinderStart.com, but only pending amendments to its complaint A company suing Google over low page rankings has been given a chance to bolster ...

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 ...

I am seeing some early reports of a Google Toolbar PageRank update this morning. There are threads with discussion on the topic at DigitalPoint Forums and Google Webmaster Help. Plus if you search for ...

Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to ...

Google can use any criteria it wishes to rank Web sites, including downgrading competitors, a lawyer for the search giant told a federal judge Friday. KinderStart.com LLC is suing Google because, it ...