I'm passing them along to our developers who wrote the algorithm that comes up with the list. 

With enough data, aside from the physical inspection of a property and presumably the qualitative measures of a property, a relatively accurate algorithm can be produced to arrive at a value.

I decipher what the Google algorithm may be and why they want back links.

lol, i think so too.. i called up Airbnb support to clarify and they also said that they don't do any such things.. however the searches sometimes do have a complex algorithm running behind ...however just merely clicking the listing link  and not ending up booking couldn't possibly set me up for failure...

They too are still constantly changing the algorithm, so just offer good, unique content that will help the end user and you will find that your pages should do ok.

Yes, we all know and promote the thought ‘content is the king’, but apart from this, there are several other factors which can make your content marketing campaign, a success.It is evident that Google’s ranking algorithm has made many once successful SEO practices have become irrelevant.

There's also platforms like beyondpricing and wheelhouse that use pricing algorithms to do it for you.

My shower door installer was gobsmacked at the low price I'd gotten on the fancy shower door for my last flip.Best thing is, they have an algorithm that matches what you look at.

@Jacob Forbis - While nobody knows their algorithm - this kind of explains it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

It's all just algorithmic guesswork.