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How could a website be called Google?
After reading this article, are you still amazed? Its basically a search engine. What else could it be?
Playing with Google Search
You won’t mind if I say Google Search is a mystery. Well, most of you would, but does anyone precisely knows how Google indexes the content published on the internet?
Most recently, I published a blog post regarding Why my drive shows less space than expected?. That post was more about describing binary numbers for different file systems and how manufacturers use it for case of simplicity. Interestingly, that post, became the top result in this query on Google, “Why my drive shows less space than expected?”.
This gave me some idea to play more with Google Search. Since I’ve always been a fan of how Google keeps its search index it was really enjoying identifying these facts too.
Sooner when I searched if Google can tell me the binary number of my name, the query “what is a binary number of atif” returned this post on the 3rd top result.
Now this leads how Google might be doing behind the curtains. Is it true that Google is indexing each and every word of whatever you post on the internet? Or is it based on the influence of any post on the internet in recent given time?
Raising more riddles for the technology geeks out there 🙂 whatever, its just lovely how the way Google fetches your search queries.
Why a search website is named Google?
I don’t know, and I’m still finding!
Why a search engine is called Google?
Well I’m trying to play a bit with Google here… believe me!
Perhaps Google is just so obsessed with blog posts that it want bloggers to explain why why a search engine is called Google? If you search this query, there are almost 30 million pages, and this page appears in the top most result for the search query “Why a search engine is called Google”.
Want to test? see it to believe it.
See!… Google is really mysterious or is it just the post title that’s funny.
Now comes the forecast
Time to test Google for consistency, that this post is going to be the Number 1 for the query “Why a search engine is called Google” by next week. Let’s see how it goes.
Courtesy: the mysteries of The Google are not new, as a matter of fact, even this blog post is just another inspiration from Feross’ post “Why is this website called Google”.
Bing is Bingo …!!!
Bing on it!
Microsoft Bing! (Formerly code named: Kumo) is perhaps the much anticipated search engine, that finally we can witness a tough competition with Google Search this time. As a matter of fact, Microsoft doesn’t see Bing as the Google killer. However; as I see, Bing has so much more to deliver than classic Google search. Let’s start what I liked when I “Binged on it”.
First of all, let’s don’t get indulge into the technical specs of what Bing has. I’d rather start off with some low level eye catchers. Well, the main screen, the dashboard, the main dock. You may call it anything, but Bing starts its magic right from there. The main screen certainly has the simple textbox with a search button. Just like one of any other dozen search engines we’ve already seen, but the cool thing is, that likewise Live Search, its first page has a cool beautiful background which comes at random and providing a couple of info boxes on it. This is an interesting feature for general knowledge that most of the home users would really appreciate. Then you land on search results page, it’s full of interesting UI features, which surely decrease your search time and effort. This includes on mouse over popup that shows the snippet of target page. And of-course there is the search history on left navigation pane that is always there for quick referencing. Furthermore, what I have witnessed so far using Bing is that, Microsoft has really improved on the content that appears on search result. I searched me for instance, and when Google search return several different ‘Atif’s’, Bing has quite relevant results including, and which is more surprising. All in all, it’s a decent approach that is worth to give a try. For any further information you can “bing on ‘Bing’ as well” 😉
In a couple of articles and blogs, what I came to know that Microsoft believes that Bing is just the starter to the new paradigm of searching. Though Google search may have so many other features to provide but as a matter of fact Bing also have a long way to go as far as software maturity level is concerned. As a final word, next time when you need to ‘Google’ something, you better try to ‘Bing on it’ 😉
Bingo!
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