How Google Search Works: Not for the Dainty

Dan Limbach

Google search is a mysterious black box that processes queries and spits out results - 300 million times a day and to the tune of $20 billion a year. Nobody outside Google knows exactly how it works, but this is as good a schematic as you'll find.

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Click here to see the original source of the schematic, at PPCBlog. Nice work, folks!