People keep saying that and yet the one person project search.marginalia.nu keeps delighting us.

I can't imagine they use Googles newest algorithm.

I'm actually using Google's original algorithm, with a modification suggested in the original PageRank paper called Personalized PageRank that allows using a specific segment of the internet as a tastemaker in creating the ranking.

It's a bit funny because the authors of the paper suggest this modification and explicitly states it makes the algorithm extremely resilient to manipulation from commercial interests.