AshleyByrom Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Just... out of curiosity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 People sit at computers and write them? Or do you mean, how do they work? In a nutshell, they visit a page and save all of the content into a database, looking for all links on the current page, visit them, store them, look for more links, and so on. This is called spidering and indexing. A user typing a search term queries this database and is given results. Obviously, there is a lot more complexity under the hood. This is a basic overview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyByrom Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Must be a big arse database... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrydesign Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Terabytes and terabytes and a few more terabytes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Terabytes and terabytes and a few more terabytes... More like Petabytes. If you look around there's quite a lot of information about how google handles things. They pretty much have custom technology for everything, from mapreduce, to the google file system, to Bigtable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 They are also made with lots of love and topped with a kiss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyByrom Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Anybody heard about googles new OS coming out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Yes. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,259674.0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 How are search engines made Did you google it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyByrom Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 haha, crazily enough... i did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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