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  2. TrustRank - Wikipedia

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    Today, this algorithm is a part of major web search engines like Yahoo! and Google. [2] One of the most important factors that help web search engine determine the quality of a web page when returning results are backlinks. Search engines take a number and quality of backlinks into consideration when assigning a place to a certain web page in ...

  3. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Robin Li developed the RankDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results page ranking [23] [24] [25] and received a US patent for the technology. [26] It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in ...

  4. Ranking (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Ranking of query is one of the fundamental problems in information retrieval (IR), [1] the scientific/engineering discipline behind search engines. [2] Given a query q and a collection D of documents that match the query, the problem is to rank, that is, sort, the documents in D according to some criterion so that the "best" results appear early in the result list displayed to the user.

  5. Search engine optimization metrics - Wikipedia

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    Domain Authority (DA), a website metric developed by Moz, is a predictive metric to determine a website's traffic and organic search engine rankings. Domain Authority is based on different link metrics, such as number of linking root domains, number of total backlinks, and the distance of backlinks from the home page of websites.

  6. PageRank - Wikipedia

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    A search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking. [15] Li referred to his search mechanism as "link analysis," which involved ranking the popularity of a web site based on how many other sites had linked to it. [16] RankDex, the first search ...

  7. AOL

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    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. AOL.

  8. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine, or database returns results from a collection of resources that satisfy a user's query. They are therefore fundamental to the success of information systems and digital platforms.

  9. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. [35] The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.