For a long time Google's algorithms have remained a mystery to us all. Well, not exactly all of us, since Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and a handful of techies at Google know the 'secrets'. What are these algorithms? What do they do? How do they work?

To understand the importance of Google's algorithms, you must first understand what happens when a term is entered into Google's search engine. When you search for a term, Google's robots scan the web to find web pages that contain information...