Bill Slawski points to a Google patent filed in 2004 and granted Tuesday that describes link ranking. One signal Google uses to rank Web pages looks at links to and from pages. Links from pages the
search engine deem important carry more weight than links from less important pages. This signal, known as PageRank, is one of many ranking signals Google relies on to rank Web pages in search
queries.
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