plumsauce - 8:59 am on Mar 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

troels,

try
[google.com...]

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important. blah,blah,blah

the search was:

"uniquely democratic" brin

to clarify the context of my original comment,
i was being sarcastic.

[edited by: Marcia at 3:22 am (utc) on Mar. 27, 2004]
[edit reason] Linked URL. [/edit]