How Google Search Works!!

Difficulty Level : Easy ● Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2017

The Google Search: It happens billions of times a day in the blink of an eye and we can

have anything before us our minds can think of!

Let ’s explore the ar t and science that makes it possible.

Crawling & Indexing: The journey of a quer y star ts before we ever type a search, with

crawling and indexing the web of trillions of documents.

Google uses sof tware known as Web Crawlers to discover publicly available webpages.

The most well-known crawler is called Googlebot. Crawlers look at webpages and

follow links on those pages and go from link to link and bring data about those

webpages back to Google’s ser vers.

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The web is like an ever-growing public librar y with billions of books. Google essentially

gathers the pages during the crawl process and then creates an index much like the

index in the back of a book. The Google index includes information about words and

their locations. When we search, at the most basic level, their algorithms look up our

search terms in the index to find the appropriate pages.

Algorithms: Algorithms are the computer processes and formulas that take our queries

and solve them from thousands of webpages with helpful information. Google uses

PageRank Algorithm developed by its founders Sergey Brin and L arr y Page. Today

Google’s algorithms rely on more than 200 unique signals which include things like the

terms on websites, the freshness of content and our region that make it possible to

guess what we might really be looking for.

Fighting Spam: Spam sites tries to be on the top of search results through techniques

like repeating keywords over and over, buying links that pass PageRank or putting

invisible text on the screen. This is bad for search because relevant websites get buried,

and it ’s bad for legitimate website owners because their sites become harder to find.

The good news is that Google’s algorithms can detect the vast majority of spam and

demote it automatically.

Here is the glimpse of journey travelled by Google Search

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Impor tant Links :

1. https://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestor y/

2. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (Pagerank paper by Google

founders)

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