I am wondering if google and its search engine are actually important for the blogosphere. I believe, that bloggers have lots of options to locate other blogs (technorati, feedster, etc) and google is not the only solution.

Under that perspective, I completely agree with the post in the blog herald about the google game.
Google is not the only game in town, and even if it were, blog entries should be targeted to the readers.

Nonetheless, getting acquainted with google’s pageranking system can certainly help understanding how the network works. Apart from that, I suppose that other search engines, rank sites more or less on the same principles.

So here are a couple of links, which explain google’s pagerank algorithm. One here and one here. Both posts are very detailed and surely explain a lot (although concentration is needed).

As the post in the blog herald suggests, I have my doubts if the algorithm is completely decoded, but still both posts are extremely thorough.

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