As of today, Google has announced that they will be open sourcing their world-renowned ranking algorithm, PageRank. This move is part of Google's continuous efforts to promote transparency and encourage innovation in the tech industry.
By open-sourcing the algorithm, Google hopes to empower webmasters and SEO professionals to understand better the factors that influence rankings. This, in turn, would lead to higher-quality websites and a more user-friendly internet.
PageRank, which was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the late 1990s, has been Google's search engine's backbone for over two decades. The algorithm analyzes the links between web pages, determining the relevance and authority of a page, allowing Google to deliver the most accurate search results to its users.
Despite some concerns raised by industry experts about the algorithm's potential misuse, Google assures its users that it has taken appropriate measures to ensure the integrity and security of PageRank.
However, there is a catch. The announcement of the open-sourcing of PageRank is an April Fool's joke. So, don't be fooled by the date, and don't go looking for that PageRank source code just yet!
Happy April Fools' Day!
Top comments (13)
LOL
Google recommended me this ..lol
LOL
Oops😅
I always switch Larry Wall and Larry Page ;
Larry Larry & Page Wall
Been doing SEO for years and Google like to switch a lot keeping the recepis secret
Now that Google borrowed the output from GPT4 llm I think pagerank will not matter so much as people will use the ai to help them in their search
You got me!
For a moment I thought it same as Twitter algorithm
What a clever April Fools' Day prank! You had me going for a moment there, thinking that Google was actually going to open-source their PageRank algorithm. 😂
We should have seen it coming...
I fell for it☠😂
best way to make April fool, I actually believed after knowing Twitter algorithm already open sourced.
Dang! I was really hoping on this to be true
Ha ha ! You got me ! I really believed it