1. IntroductionGoogle is the most used search engine in the world. Every month, more than a billion searches are performed on Google. What makes Google so popular? The brains behind Google is its ranking algorithm. Every search engine provides essentially the same function, but this was not the case when the World Wide Web was created. The founders of Google created pagerank which sets it apart from all other search engines. Google uses keywords and links from other pages to sort the relevance of web pages on the WWW and determine whether they are useful to the search content. When a user searches for a term, pagerank attempts to present the data in the most viable way. The purpose of this research paper is to explain and demonstrate how the pagerank algorithm works. The article will first describe the origin of pagerank and why it was created. He will also discuss what sets it apart from other ranking systems developed around the same time. Second, it will demonstrate the method used to rank ads from a web search. Finally, the...