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P.R.A.S.E., aka “Prase” is a new web tool for examining the PageRank assigned to top search results at Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search. Search terms are entered in the usual way, but a combined list of results from the three search engines is presented in PageRank order, from highest to lowest, along with the search engine and result rank.

I tried a few search queries, such as “web 2.0″, “palo alto”, “search algorithm”, “martin luther king”, and was surprised to see how quickly the PageRank 0 pages start turning up in the search results. For “web 2.0″, the top result on Yahoo is the Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0, which seems reasonable, but it’s also a PR0 page, which is surprising to me.

As a further experiment, I tried a few keywords from this list of top paying search terms, with generally similar results.

PageRank is only used by Google, which no longer uses the original PageRank algorithm for ranking results, but it’s still interesting to see the top search results from the three major search engines laid out with PR scores to get some sense of the page linkage.

See also:

• More on the site from the author at Don Johnson Design
• A reading list on PageRank and search algorithms

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