PageRank History
A lot of people enter the words pagerank history into Google but what are you looking for? Do you want a history of pagerank or the page rank history for your site and its pages? The former is easy; just read on – but the latter is more difficult.
You might not think your school project could have become a business. Neither did Joey Rahimi, Larry Page and Sergery Brin – well not at first, anyway. Page and Brin developed Google PageRank as a part of a research project, named “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, that commenced in 1995 at Stanford University.
They wanted to create a search engine that bettered the existing engines that relied essentially on text analysis to calculate relevance. So what is text analysis? Well. It is artificial intelligence (AI) performing linguistics. Originally, search engines used a method that seeks for syntactic patterns but the problem with this is that words can have more than one meaning or be employed figuratively rather than literally. Also, we aren’t absolutely sure how human beings actually process word knowledge in order to communicate and understand language, so how do we tell artificial intelligence to do it?
There are some possible solutions researchers are investigating to help AI understand the language used in blogs, websites and elsewhere. So, they “crawled” the web trying to provide more relevant results than the other search engines, creating a search engine called BackRub at the time.
In their view, the algorithm they worked at creating would provide higher-quality search results by calculating relevance as well as importance and that’s where the PageRank technology applied. Page and Brin just crawled the web looking for more results having greater relevance. The name PageRank is particularly descriptive deriving from the name of its inventor, Larry Page, while it also, conveniently, makes sense because it’s a ranking Google gives to a page.
Now, if you were really looking for the PageRank history for your website that is more difficult.
A lot of site owners realise too late that they have no history for their site and its pages and go looking for it but it isn’t there. Google does not appear to store that information.
So, the remedy is to make a resolution to store it for yourself in future and there is a site that will help you do that. The only service I have been able to find, with the added benefit that it’s free, is at livepageranks.com where you can store your PageRank history for both Google and Alexa but only from the time you join.