Spring '10 Research PPT

1. How does Google search engine work? By Sarah Whitten

2. What will be discussed Research Questions PageRank Processes Conclusion

3. Research Questions How do search engines rank websites? What exactly needs to be done to make a fake site return close to the true site in a search?

4. PageRank PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn)) In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.

5. Resources Used Network Solutions Domain name and hosting services Cost for the domain name: $91.96 for 5 years Cost for web hosting: $119.50 for a year Web builder

6. Progress

8. Conclusion A major way that search ranking to done is by PageRank As of right now, I am still trying methods on getting my site closer to the VMI Mathematics & Computer Science

9. Work Cited http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35255 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Google_directory_PageRank https://www.networksolutions.com/