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Re: How Search Works

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Post by kappaloris » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:31 PM UTC

hurstdog wrote: post #7

prezjordan wrote: post #5

They left out the part where they index your emails and choose items you agree with over items you don't :)

I think you're joking, but just for those that don't think that, we don't actually do that.

then how can you scroogle and boobble people without those informations?

Re: How Search Works

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Post by eykanal » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

I was halfway through before I realized that some of the content was clickable.

Very nice page, though.

Re: How Search Works

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Post by weareconvo » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #5

They left out the part where they index your emails and choose items you agree with over items you don't :)

Grammatically, that makes no sense :)

Re: How Search Works

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Post by aiiane » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:03 PM UTC

cryowaffle wrote: post #9

Whoa... really, 100 MILLION gigabytes to store "The Index"? Wow. That's big.

aka 95+ petabytes.

Re: How Search Works

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Post by jojopotato » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:06 PM UTC

Interesting that they show the approximate number of searches / second at the bottom. Is that an otherwise publicly available number?

Re: How Search Works

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Post by anoncow » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:12 PM UTC

hurstdog wrote: post #7

prezjordan wrote: post #5

They left out the part where they index your emails and choose items you agree with over items you don't :)

I think you're joking, but just for those that don't think that, we don't actually do that.

I don't remember if hotmail used to run ads.

Re: How Search Works

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Post by johnmurch » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:16 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #8

johnmurch wrote: post #4

Is this just PR for Google? Would rather see a more technical approach - although great for forwarding to clients when asked :)

Apparently, perhaps the 'scroogled' campaign is having an effect. However it does give a better insight into the challenges of building a search product. It is a series of really challenging problems. So many people take search for granted these days.

Yes and no - 'scroogled' is bring up stuff like - selling ads based on context - but are you paying $20/year for outlook.com email? Gmail is free and pretty awesome (haven't gotten spam in years).

Re: How Search Works

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Post by manojlds » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:21 PM UTC

> By the way, in the 47 seconds you've been on this page, approximately 1,813,260 searches were performed.

Aren't these just some random numbers that they pull out of the air?

Re: How Search Works

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Post by Xorlev » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:50 PM UTC

38,800 requests/second according to their estimation.

Re: How Search Works

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Post by robinh » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:50 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #18

> By the way, in the 47 seconds you've been on this page, approximately 1,813,260 searches were performed. Aren't these just some random numbers that they pull out of the air?

Not sure why you're being downvoted, as it seems like a legitimate question, but...

I don't think so. It seems logical that Google's been keeping statistics about this sort of thing, so it doesn't surprise me that they keep track of such things as 'average queries per second'.