• Google takes

• The phrase hits (the Xs),

• The adjacency hits (the Ys),

• The weights hits (the Zs), and

• About 100 other secret variables

• Throws out everything but the top 2,000

• Multiplies each remaining page's individual score by it's "PageRank"

• And, finally, displays the top 1,000 in order.

Patrick Crispen (CSU Fullerton).