UPDATE: Matt Cutts says Google is "improving our analysis of the link structure of the Web" and has "begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, ...

A former Google engineer named Jonathan Tang (LinkedIn profile) who worked at Google on search between 2009 and 2014 said Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. He said this in a Hacker News thread ...

An Ex-Google software engineer commented in a Hacker News discussion, discussing how Google works. Along the way he mentioned that Google no longer used the original PageRank algorithm. The Hacker ...

For years and years, Google has been trying to get away from having webmasters and SEOs focus on their PageRank score. They finally killed off toolbar PageRank a year ago but now, time and time again, ...

Google's search engine fame came in part from its algorithm that rates Web pages based on links from other pages. Microsoft thinks people provide a better ranking method. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

How reliable is Google's beloved PageRank based search algorithm formula? Google blogger Matt Cutts points to a fellow Googler blog post, that of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Cutts’ ...

Google is giving itself the digital equivalent of 100 lashes by downgrading the search result ranking of the company’s own Web browser, Google Chrome, for 60 days. The decision came after recent ...

Google’s PageRank is one of the metrics that started it all. It was present in that very first research paper, that laid a foundation for Google’s entire ranking system. PageRank figures out the ...

Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts sent a shockwave through the advanced SEO community by saying that site owners could no longer perform “PageRank sculpting” using the nofollow tag in the way ...

Gary Illyes, a Google webmaster trends analyst, said yesterday that using a 301, 302 or 30x redirect of any kind will not result in a loss of PageRank, that there is no PageRank dilution. Here is the ...

The online merchant who notoriously bullied his customers–in hopes that they would be inspired to leave him bad online reviews and subsequently up his Google PageRank–pled guilty to several counts ...