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===Improved search algorithms=== The [[PageRank]] algorithm developed by [[Google]] gives more prominence to documents to which other [[Web page]]s have linked.<ref>{{Cite patent | inventor-last = Page | inventor-first = Lawrence | publication-date = 1998-01-09 | issue-date = 2001-09-04 | title = Method for node ranking in a linked database | country-code = US | patent-number = 6285999 | postscript = .}} "A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is..."</ref> See [[Search engine]] for additional examples.
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