How does Google Return Results?

Discussion in 'Google' started by rgkopchak, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. #1
    I know this question might seem a little odd, but it came up today in my discussion with someone on how search results should be returned.

    When you go to google and you type in something like:

    black cat

    (No quotes, just as seen above)

    How does it return the results. Does it:

    1) Give all results that match black AND cat only.
    2) Give results that match or black OR cat, but list black AND cat first, then move onto the other results.

    This is hard to test since it will only let you look at the first 1,000 results, and it can be difficult to find a combination of words that return that few results.

    Thank you in advance.
     
    rgkopchak, Oct 23, 2008 IP
  2. app789

    app789 Peon

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    #2
    Must ask to Google for their search algorithm.
     
    app789, Oct 23, 2008 IP
  3. Lord

    Lord Active Member

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    #3
    it's neither

    just google black caterpillar and you'll see that neither 1 or 2 are valid answers
     
    Lord, Oct 23, 2008 IP
  4. rgkopchak

    rgkopchak Peon

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    Not sure what you mean. First page seems to be all black AND caterpillar, which could fall into either group.
     
    rgkopchak, Oct 24, 2008 IP
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    angilina Notable Member

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    #5
    Google consider so many things when returning results. I saw some where that google consider about 200 factors in returning results.
     
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  6. SEOBOT

    SEOBOT Banned

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    #6
    Hi friend,
    Here is little info about how search work :

    First a crawler is been developed to index whole web.
    The information is stored in the database in systemic manner.
    A Search engine is been programmed and Algorithm is been implemented.
    Algorithm is been tested and implemented.
    Page rank technology is been used to rank page rank.
    PGR system is complex and is kept secret by their makers.
    A webpage is given a PGR and displayed in the search results acc 2 it.
    The whole system is dynamic Google has programmers to work around 24 hours for fixing up things and implementation of some thing new in it.

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    If you have make your own serach engine dont worry use Yahoo Boss.
    For addtional information about refer this link.

    Good Luck!
     
    SEOBOT, Oct 24, 2008 IP
  7. iced82

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    #7
    i dont think he really wants to learn that stuff, he is just curious
     
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  8. grg

    grg Guest

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    It's far more sophisticated algo - so non of options are quite valid here.
     
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    iLine.us Banned

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    It would return only those results which contain both keywords.
     
    iLine.us, Oct 24, 2008 IP
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    Their algo is not known and it looks for hundreds of things. However, Google returns results based on relevance.
     
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    google cant focus on one factor
     
    abook, Oct 24, 2008 IP