A Review Paper on Page Ranking Algorithms

Page Rank is extensively used for ranking web pages in order of relevance by mostly all search engines world-wide. There are many algorithms for page ranking such as Google Page Rank algorithm, Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) algorithm etc. Some search engine uses link structure based page ranking algorithm while some uses content based. The page ranking algorithm reflects the popularity of a web page in its page rank score. But with the growing requirements of ordering more and more relevant web pages, the traditional page rank algorithm undergo several enhancements and improvements. The main aim of this paper is to discuss the various existing page ranking algorithms and the modification done to the standard page rank algorithm.