PageRank Algorithm

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlink set of documents, such as the WWW, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The Algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). The name PageRank is a trademork of Google. This is the basic search algorithm which google use for search.