Tracey Northcott wrote: > Is anybody familiar with the way that google i-mode (Japan) operates and > orders the hits? It seems to work differently to the Japanese mobile > search engines. Google's pageranking mechanism is called "PageRank" and is based on a scientific paper by Google founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin, R Motwani, and T Winograd. You can download the paper here: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1999-66 Gerhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K. fasol_at_eurotechnology.com http://www.eurotechnology.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Find us in "IBM developerWorks" and in "Chemical & Engineering News": http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-elite8.html http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8049/8049bus1.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Feb 16 16:27:18 2004