Google PageRank is a proprietary mathematical formula created by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that every article on Wikipedia is ranked higher than the rest of the web, for every query, regardless of relevance to any user of the Google website.

While other search engines have deep financial obligations to e-commerce blogs and storefronts, Google’s patented PageRank technology asserts that a high school freshman’s Wikipedia article should rank higher than the official biography located on the White House government website for the term [George Bush]. We agree.