http://www.websitehits.com/taxonomy/term/26/0 Method to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents. en http://www.websitehits.com/pagerank <p><a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/pagerank"><acronym title="PageRank: Method to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents.">PageRank</acronym></a> is a patented method to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references.</p> <p>PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engine</acronym></a>. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine.</p> <p><a href="http://www.websitehits.com/pagerank">read more</a></p> PageRank Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:28:35 -0500 joseph 19 at http://www.websitehits.com