A computational chemist at Washington State University has adapted Google's seminal search algorithm, PageRank, so that instead of mapping trillions of web pages it maps out the shapes and chemical ...

No one knows exactly how Google calculates search engine result rankings, so it's useless to try to understand the algorithm, according to Fernando Chavez. Still, during the past few years he's ...

Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a Web site to rank high in a Google search. But even this president of a search engine optimization firm was blown away by a proposal he received at a search ...