How does Google work?
How does Google work?
Have you ever wondered how does Google work? What stands behind the veil of the fastest growing and the most popular company in the world. Lets crack that nut. Out to get a hammer.
So how does Google Work.
At the heart of Google genius stands a simple concept. Google decides which websites are important by the number of links pointing to that website. Usually the more the better, but not always. That smart G analyzes each and every website pointing to you and if it finds that the site linking has different topics, that link becomes worthless. For example if I sell animal food and a fella by the name of Jon running a site on quantum physics gives me his generous link – I’m out of luck, Google doesn’t care.
This is one of the primary reasons why Google results are so relevant. The logic behind it – if you are good, people will link to you.
Another aspect that Google looks at, is the number of links that link to the website that links to you. Confused? Me too.
Lets pretend for a second there is Bob with a website on physics. Bob links to John. The next step Google is going to do, is look at Bob’s website and analyze what links point to Bob. Lets say that Bob is a prominent scientist with 1000 science sites linking to him. In that case Google is going consider John quite important as well, because Bob with so many links linked to John.
With this example we can say that a link from Bob is going to affect John quite a bit, because Bob has so much link power. If Bob only had 20 links, John’s website would not have been impacted so much.
This concept is called Page Rank.
Page rank is measured in points, from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. With this example we can say that having a link from a website with 1000 quality links - is 10 times better then 20 websites with only a few links, or in another words with low Page Rank.
Page rank is one of the driving forces behind Google genius and it can be said that Page Rank idea made Google founders billionaires.
What Else Does Google look at?
Apart from Page rank and links Google analyzes and dissects websites on many other factors. Google is going to look at things such as headings, text, navigation, alt-tags, filenames, headers, domains and so forth. It will analyze and figure out what in the world your website is about and where it can shove it. Once all pieces are put together Google delivers your website in its search results. It might not show on the first, second or third pages. It might be all the way on 20, 40 and 60, but your website is most likely stored in Googles’ databases.
Whenever Google spiders analyze your website, they take its copy and store it on their servers. This allows Google to quickly show the page and then redirect searchers to the original destination.
Google is a vast mathematical miracle and it works from numerous desktop computers.
Instead of having mainframe computers, Google has thousands of desktops connected together, which inner lock to create advanced server farms. Farms consists of cheap PCs that form giant hard drives. The advantage of such system - it allows Google to replace dead parts without stopping the whole operation.
Here you can watch a very interesting, interactive tutorial on how Google stores the web and how it manages to show exact results in a split of an eye.
Does Google show you any love?
