How Google Works: The Incredible Power Behind its Search Engine

[Rabid]

The search feature on my computer can take up to a minute and google can search the entire internet in a fraction of a second. How does it do that?

Even with everything archived, it seems like the processing power needed to run such a search engine would be astronomical.

 

[Pengwuino]

Even with everything archived, it seems like the processing power needed to run such a search engine would be astronomical.

http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

They also have an article on their latest search result query system here http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

 

[dduardo]

Google has a really large linux cluster based on commodity hardware.

 

[eNathan]

Simple Answer :: Google Owns.

But if I were to take a guess, I would say that google does not search the entire internet. But narrows down the search via your keywords. I am not exatly sure of that, however.

 

[z-component]

Yes, Google uses "spider" bots to "crawl" portions of the Internet to index sites, along with their keywords.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

 

[ComputerGeek]

The search feature on my computer can take up to a minute and google can search the entire internet in a fraction of a second. How does it do that?

Even with everything archived, it seems like the processing power needed to run such a search engine would be astronomical.

The Founder's Ph.d. Thesis is out there. it discuses the tech he ended up using in building google. I forget the name of the paper. some one used it as a presentation topic in my seminar class.

 

[Smurf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Wiki is your friend