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Simplified Google Ranking Model
3/31/2010 It's pretty obvious that no one will ever be able to crack Google's overall ranking algorithm. In fact, Google engineers probably couldn't tell you exactly why one site is ranking where it is for a particular query without researching that site like any SEO would.