A Comparative Study of Link Analysis Algorithms

With the advancement of technology, the internet has become a growing place with huge amounts of information. Retrieving information is not a hard task, but ranking the retrieved information according to the relevancy is a very complex task. Search engines provides users to query and assess results instantly. Behind these search engines there runs vast amounts of algorithms to give out the best results. One such algorithm type is the link analysis algorithms which is used to rank pages and content. This paper reviews and compares the most commonly used link analysis algorithms.