This class can be used to retrieve the Google page rank of a page with a given URL.
The Page Rank is a family of algorithms for assigning numerical weights to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine.
Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The page rank system is used by the popular search engine Google to help determining the relevance of a page.
The page rank is considered to determine the order of presentation of different locations in search engine result pages.
This class accesses the Google servers and queries the page rank of a given URL. The page rank value returned by the class is a number between 0 and 10. |