{"id":53,"date":"2004-06-20T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-06-20T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T16:31:00","slug":"the-technology-behind-googles-great-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"The technology behind Google’s great results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank(tm), a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.<\/em> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Technology As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank(tm), a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page … Continue reading “The technology behind Google’s great results”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=37","url_meta":{"origin":53,"position":0},"title":"Will Google Netscape Microsoft? by Paul Allen","author":"Jorah","date":"May 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Last November, Google released its Deskbar, which allows you to search the web from your Windows toolbar without using a browser. 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