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The Anatomy of a Search Engine

https://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

“Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of...” (from the page’s text)

Topic: Educational
Quality: Quality 86 scored 12 Aug 2025
Language: english
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Answered: OK (200), HTML
Last read: 6 Jul 2025
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wikipedia.org “the anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine”
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