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How does Google do it?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Doc Tagle writes "With Google reportedly on the verge of going public, more and more people want to know what makes Google tick. The Observer, serves up the answers to our questions."

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  1. Additional questions by lewko · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why do NONE of the statistics ever mention the pigeons?

    Google search for the letter "a" resulted in 3,530,000,000 hits [search took 0.12 seconds].

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  2. The "searching xxx web pages" count by shish · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Perhaps this is another form of secrecy - the number of pages indexed never seems to go up, except in huge jumps. According to archive.org, it's been stuck on 4,285,199,774 pages for about a year now :/

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  3. I know I know! by Flingles · · Score: 0, Redundant

    more and more people want to know what makes Google tick

    Google has already told everyone what makes them tick! Imagine, a beowulf cluster of pigeons

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  4. the NSA, FBI and CIA would panic by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and google would be nationalised in an eyeblink as soon as they realised that google has enough computing power to do simulation of nuclear weapons :) possibly in realtime !

    that must why they're so secretive !

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  5. Re:My theory: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So you're telling me you think the amounts shown in the Federal Register are the real budgets for all those agencies? Next you'll be telling me you think the Iraq invasion wasn't about oil and that Diebold is an impartial producer of reliable voting machines.