Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  How PageRank works (24 Sep 2004) 1. Google’s PageRank algorithm is a mathematical recipe that uses the structure of the links between web pages to assign a score to each page that reflects its importance. In effect, each link from one page to another is counted as a “vote” for the destination page, and each page’s score depends on the scores of the pages that link to it. But those pages’ scores, in turn, depend on the scores of the pages that link to them, and so on. As a result, calculating the scores is a complicated business. Article URL: http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3172188 Read 53 more articles from Economist sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Last gasp of the fax machine     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy