Google rankings explained
 

A friend just sent this to me...it might be old info. for some of you but it's new to me.

As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank?, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.

When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user's results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.

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http://www.bildon.de/~off/images/pigeon.JPG

old as dust

4 years ago?

huh?? wtf was that?

Read at the bottom:

"Note: This page was posted for April Fool's Day - 2002."

Never heard it.. and it's pretty funny :)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh some people probably take it as fact

i think 5....

Pigeons eh?

Makes sense.

I was gonna base my next search engine on a platypus, but pigeons should be much more effective

Lots of idiots all around :upsidedow

that seems pretty oldd........

(insert time line pic with bird shit on it)

:winkwink:

PR pfffff

old post, WTF