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Google Turns 5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-a-wish dept.

Gantic writes "The BBC has an article on Google's 5th birthday. The popular search engine now handles over 200 million queries a day and the word "Google" is now a noun, adjective and verb. Lets see how long the most popular search engine in the world can last, here's to another 5 years and more Google!"

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  1. Re:Do you use another? by Organized+Konfusion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    alltheweb. why? because they still have kazaa lite, anti-scientology and DeCSS links.
    Because they are European
    Because they have the biggest index of pages on the web.

  2. Innovation keeps them up . . . by shamitbagchi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Teoma etc came in I thought Google would be in for some tough competition - but everything has blown away in front of them - a case in study for technology and services analysts for years to come.

    Their PageRank technology is something that they have leveraged on . . .


    [PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

    Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query]
    Their continuing language translation initiative and innovative Google Labs keep up the momentum in their favour - searching now is heading for Google thats it, nothing else comes to mind !

    Also there have been amazingly few outages too on their side; as they add more and more pages to their cache and more services !