Google Technology

[carrot red]

Did you ever wonder how Google really works?

This is how:
The technology behind Google's great results (http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html)

:)

[Dechipher]

I KNEW it! All my friends siad I was crazy, but this proves it.

[cyberkiller6276]

Now when somebody says PC (player Character) I'll think "Pigeon Clusters?".:laughing:

I find it extremely funny that they seemlessly turned the article into a joke halfway through.

[Aegis Runestone]

*laughes* Pidgeons! What will they think up next? Oh wait, I don't want to know the answer to that... :p

[linkofzelda1]

Carrot, that's good! I was laughing out loud for like five minutes. I showed my brother, too, and he thought it was funny. How do you find these things???

[cyberkiller6276]

Google search I think ;)

[vegeta1215]

lol, that was pretty funny.

From what I heard, Google really works by way of massive hash table look ups run through a ton of Linux boxes.

[Eckels]

yeah, they put that page up for april fools day, do some searching around google's website and you'll find some really cool stuff.

http://froogle.google.com/
http://catalogs.google.com/
http://labs.google.com/sets
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
http://labs.google.com/location

And other stuff.

I find this to be the most interesting:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

[fatcatfan]

Yeah, we were using Pigeon Clusters to work on ZC, to help us more faithfully reproduce the AI of the NES original, among other things, but they went on strike. They were making all kinds of demands - more take-home seed, longer statue breaks, free millet in the breakroom. While Google can afford to meet those demands in their business model, you leechers don't pay for ZC, so we had to let the pigeons go. A few offered to remain and work for free, just for the opportunity to have a beak in the development of ZC, but the whole ordeal left me disgusted and I told them they were no longer welcome. Not to mention the *smell* makes me nauseated just thinking about it, and the mites were really making my head crawl.

[J.J. Maxx]

I thought it was monkeys. Ah well, pigeons it is then. ;)

[Prrkitty]

Monkeys throw crap.... pigeons just dive bomb ya. Not sure I'd wanna work with either ;)