Search Engine Optimization - PageRank

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In 19 93, there were a hundred and 30 web sites on the enernet. Three years later, there were over 100 thousand. Page rank helped filter those out by emphasizing high quality results. A dot, e d link, or anything from the b b c, for example, would rank higher in a search result than an indy blog.

Adam Rogers has been thinking and writing about what’s known in the industry simply as "search." For the last decade, people have been grumbling about not being able to find things online, both in our private data and on the public web, despite ever-evolving algorithms. Ever since humans started writing stuff down, the struggle has been in how to organize it all so that its contents wouldn't be lost in the stacks. Search has always been an attempt to fix that problem.

Search and Ye Might Find