That Susan is quite smart in no way takes away from the programmers who are also quite smart. Search leadership is engineers all the way down, from Larry (invented PageRank) to Alan (started as a hardware engineer at Compaq) to Amit (one of the leading academic figures in information retrieval before he invented Google's ranking algorithm) to Ben (authored much of the early utility code for Google).
But hey, if you'd like to give props to the programmers toiling away on Google, I'll be happy to take 'em. ;-)
Not at all. PageRank is a way of assessing relevant importance of pages; the only input is link structure. If that was the sole ranking algorithm, every query would give the same results.
But hey, if you'd like to give props to the programmers toiling away on Google, I'll be happy to take 'em. ;-)