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Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google:
* Google’s name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
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Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.
Introduction
Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC’s we’ve networked together to create a superfast search engine.
The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools. Read the rest of this entry »
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How long it would take to do a manual search of Google’s 3 billion Web pages, at one minute a page?
5,707 years
How long it usually takes Google to search its database?
0.5 seconds Read the rest of this entry »