{"id":1748,"date":"2009-10-19T06:16:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2012-06-26T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:16:48","slug":"the-secret-behind-googles-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/the-secret-behind-googles-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret behind Google&#8217;s Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>The technology behind Google&#8217;s great results<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span>As a Google user, you&#8217;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&#8217;s search technology is PigeonRank\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google foundersLarry Page\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Sergey Brin\u00c2\u00a0at Stanford University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/onceuponatime\/technology\/pigeon_system.jpg\" alt=\"PigeonRank System\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"580\" height=\"129\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span>Building upon the breakthrough work of\u00c2\u00a0B. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read More on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/technology\/pigeonrank.html\">Google&#8217;s Secret \u00c2\u00a0Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology behind Google&#8217;s great results As a Google user, you&#8217;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&#8217;s search technology is PigeonRank\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, a system for ranking web pages developed by <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/the-secret-behind-googles-technology\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[47,8],"tags":[121,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->