Google PageRank Algorithm:

Word Order

Question 7:

Go to www.google.com and search for the following:

1. the top ten colleges

2. colleges that are the top ten

Is there a difference in the top 5 links? Why is there a difference? Aren’t these two searches basically asking for the same thing?

ANSWER

• PageRank Home
• Life without Search Engines
• The Mathematics of Google
• Exploring PageRank
  • Dangling Nodes and Cycles
  • The Solution of Teleportation
• Google and Censorship
• Google and Word Order
• Other Famous Rankings
• The Diminishing Value of Hyperlinks
• People Involved
• References and Links