English▸ noun a value assigned to a web page as a measure of its popularity or importance, used to determine the order in which search engine results are presented:
the more pages linking to and from your blog post the more credible it will look to the search engine bots, pushing your page rank upwards.
– ORIGIN early 21st century: from PageRank, an algorithm used by the search engine Google to rank web pages returned by a particular search term (the algorithm was developed in the late 1990s and is named after Google co-founder Larry Page); pagerank is a trademark for various goods and services related to this algorithm.