Computer Fundamentals

How Google Knows

Name: How Google Knows
Duration: 135 s
Description: Google doesn't search the web when you type — it already read it. Crawlers, an index, and a ranking trick that decides what you see first.

Google doesn't search the web when you type — it already read it. Crawlers, an index, and a ranking trick that decides what you see first.

You type 'how to bake cookies' and Google has 1 million answers in 0.4 seconds. The web has BILLIONS of pages. How does Google find anything that fast?

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