What do the horizontal green bars mean?
The green ratings bars are a measure of the importance of a web page, as determined by Google’s patented PageRank technology. These PageRank bars tell you at a glance whether other people on the web consider a page to be a high-quality site worth checking out. Google itself does not evaluate or endorse websites. Rather, we measure what others on the web feel is important enough to deserve a link. And because Google does not accept payment for placement within our results, the information you see when you conduct a search is based on totally objective criteria Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC’s we’ve networked together to create a superfast search engine. The heart of our software is PageRank , a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we ha
