It is a mystery! Seriously: how Google finds and ranks sites--no matter what people tell you--is a closely guarded and frequently changed secret. That said, they might be interested in an article on PageRank: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf There are a variety of lists of signals that Google probably, maybe, could, almost certainly, might use out there on the web: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors http://www.webpronews.com/google-ranking-signal-2011-08 http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-... (I guess) http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.goog... For a (somewhat dated) broad overview of how search engines do what they do, perhaps: Witten, Gori, & Numerico, Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology, Morgan Kaufman, 2006. For a even more accessible version (and also sadly a bit dated), I might immodestly suggest the first chapter of: Halavais, Search Engine Society, Polity, 2008. Best, Alex On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> wrote:
All Hail Fellow Aoiristas!
I have some students who are looking for background reading on how the Google search algorithms work. Any suggestions here would be most welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693
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