Google PageRank Algorithm ========================= There are a number of explanations available on the web for Page's algorithm that ranks a web page for importance. More than 200 other criteria are used by google's search engine to determine display order of hits after a search request. A mathematical treatment can be found by searching for "AMS pagerank stochastic" which is an html page published by the American Mathematical Society. The author is David Austin. Explained there is the algorithm, using examples, and the connection with stochastic matrices and eigenanalysis, the power method and the fine tweaking of power method techniques for the case of Lawrence Page's algorithm.