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Google Explains How Its Search Engine Works

Curious as to how Google searches and brings back the most relevant results to your entered criteria in half a second?  Well Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team has provided an 8-minute video answerind that exact question.

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What defines an English person? Google knows.

The Google search algorithm: one of pure intelligence that doesn't only pick out results based upon the quantitative results; but also the qualitative information.  

The reputation of the site is analysed, the social agreement of the link is recorded, and the relevance to your search is decided upon.  So when you Google 'What defines an english person,' well...erm...you're best off seeing for yourself.  Hopefully it will be fixed soon, for the sake of the search engine's public image.  For those uncomfortable with swearing, don't bother carrying on; but if not, click through for the picture.  Just don't say we didn't warn you.

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Google shows us the evolution of search

Google posted a blog a couple days ago taking users for a peek 'under the hood' of the mechanics of its search engine: talking about the origins, improvements and the future of search, all from what started as a research project in 1996.

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MC Hammer launching his own search engine.

 

Don't type Hammertime into it, you could break the internet.  News emerged at this week's Web 2.0 Summit that the rapper is crafting his own search engine.

Called Wiredoo, Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell) says his search engine "will not attempt to compete with mainstream browsers like Google or Bing" (even though people can't touch him, he isn't ready to take on that kind of a challenge).  The differentiator is the service will "add keyword relationship information to search results."

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