It’s been about 15 years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin hatched the notion of developing a new kind of search engine in that Stanford dorm room… one that would rank websites responsive to a given search query by their popularity, as defined by the number and quality of other sites that point (“backlink”) to them. 15 years, a few gazillion dollars and an untold number of tweaks later, Google’s page-rank algorithm still has that singular concept at its core (as do most – if not all – of the remaining search engines by now).
That’s why we’ve advised in numerous posts (such as this one) and a white paper that [Read more...]





