Google Search Appliance: FAQ: "3.
Google Search Appliance: FAQ: "3. Will Google's ranking work behind the firewall?: Google's search algorithms use more than 100 factors to determine the ranking of search results, many of them independent of link structure." Many people think Pagerank won't be very effective within an intranet environment, but we may well be wrong - Google surely has other tricks up its search algorythm sleeve.
# Mar 17, 2003