# query engine

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## Google's PageRank--Introduction

DevFeed: [Google's PageRank--Introduction](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/google-s-pagerank-introduction-40199.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2011/06/12/googles-pagerank-introduction/>)

Published: 2011-06-12T21:09:29Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithm.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [crawler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crawler.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [history](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/history.md>), [indexer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/indexer.md>), [page-rank](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/page-rank.md>), [query-engine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/query-engine.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [search-engine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search-engine.md>), [sorting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sorting.md>)

### AI overview

An introduction to Google's PageRank and the broader process search engines use to select and order information. The article describes crawlers, indexers, ranking algorithms, and query engines, and frames ranking in terms of popularity and authority rather than relevance alone.

### Source excerpt

Importance on the Web As a society living in the "Information Age," it comes as no surprise that we are faced with the task of sorting through vast oceans of content. With the admission that most content is actually junk, we must wisely choose the objects of our analysis. The appropriately named site UselessJunk.com certainly doesn't deserve the same attention as the BBC World News page, and yet within the monstrous heart of the internet, it requires the maturity of the human psyche to discriminate their relative worth.