Algorithms of Robots of the Web

This study of search engines algorithms based on patents and reports published help us to understand how our sites gain visibility on the Web. Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo have common rules and peculiarities.

Ranking according to a Google patent
From a patent from Google about techniques for calculating search results, it showsand why a website goes to sandbox. Google attribute to each page a score to rank in the list of results that are relevant to a search. The PageRank is only a part of scores of pages.

FreshRank patent
To evaluate the freshness of documents.

LDA
A secret of Google's algorithm being revealed.

Patent about ranking based on backlinks
Patent about user behavior and how they use backlinks.

Panda patent made simple
Simplified description, comparison with the real experience.

How Panda works and why to change your site

How Google works on its algorithm
Based in part on a NYT article by a reporter who visited the laboratory.

The browserank
It is an alternative from Microsoft to the PageRank.

History
Tools and resources