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Endi

03-09-04, 20:35

As a Google user, you'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's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

187MDK

03-10-04, 05:47

PLease oh please tell me that page is a joke from the google hierarchy.

187:D

ArchAngel

03-10-04, 06:26

Those pigeons are doing a damn fine job. And it helps to keep them off the street.

goldfish

03-10-04, 10:59

So thats why leicster square looked so empty the other day! Good job on keeping pidgeon unemployment DOWN ;)

Ken3

03-10-04, 12:35

Alright. Who's cleaning up their workspace? :)

acejones

03-10-04, 13:16

i always thought it was a group of monkeys...