• Technology Review, Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:01 PM

Google has adapted its page-ranking technology and developed new algorithms to keep Twitter tweets indexing and serving up in real time. David Talbot tells us the technique relies on PageRank technology, which helps to index and find relevant Web pages with traditional Web search.

Details in Technology Review, published by MIT, explain that relevance and authority play a key role. The more pages that link to a page--and the more pages linking to the linker--the more relevant the original pages rank. Talbot details the process.

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