Internet is big enough (it has almost 50 billion of sites) to get lost in this sea of content. The Page Rank helps exist in this universe.

Obviously we all take for ever to seek information online, find exactly what we want. Internet is large enough (It has almost 50 billion sites or so) to get lost in this sea of content. This is why search engines like Google, Baidu, Ask, AOL, or Yahoo! Bing, develop complex algorithms, or mathematical instructions, telling them its servants how to deal with an assigned task.

Google’s algorithm, the most used search engine in the world, ranked number one in the Alexa index of the most visited websites on the planet, with an estimated 12 billion monthly searches is called PageRank and was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of the company, as students of the department of computer science at Stanford. Continue reading →