Search Engines as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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910 words · ~4 min read
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for those who aren't old enough to remember the before times the long long
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ago aka before the internet it used to be that when two people would argue
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about something vitally important like uh which band sang a particular hit from
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the 1980s they would have to settle it by asking a third party dusting off a
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toome of knowledge delivered straight to their door by a handy dandy salesman or
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by simply assuming their friend was wrong as always nowadays if we need to
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know something quickly we take it for granted that we can Bing it and find an
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answer almost immediately sorry I couldn't keep a straight face there we
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take for granted that we can Google it and find an answer almost immediately
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but what even many of our us techno files forget is that the internet didn't
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magically bring with it the ability to find anything in this giant computer
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network and that early neens were basically limited to browsing websites
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they already knew how to access or were able to guess that is until some clever
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programmers decided that information on the internet would be much more useful
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if it were made readily available to people and so the concept of the
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modern-day search engine was born the first generations of search engines were
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a bit cruder than those that we use today and mostly consisted of simple
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website listings with little to no information beyond their basic titles
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but as the information Super Highway began to fill with more and more traffic
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it quickly became clear that websit sites would need to be tracked using a
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slew of methods Beyond titles so bot
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programs known as webcrawlers or spiders were created to automatically scan
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websites for links and content information such as keywords titles
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synonyms access frequency relevancy rating authenticity credibility spam
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content Etc to be cocooned neatly in a
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little web of indexes for users to access by way of a search bar but if all
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it took to create a su uccessful search engine was throwing more stuff into a
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big database then we might still be asking geves for things no the
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programmers and mathematicians who work for top modern search providers are
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constantly devising ways that they can use algorithms to find the most
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important pieces of data that are related to a user's search let's say
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Linus Tech tips so they deliver a bunch of links to that website in a top- down
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fashion as opposed to technology tips about lions or something but even that
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is not enough anymore and the best search engines even use databased
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information they've collected about their users to help deliver better more
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tailored results and while that level of attentiveness is useful in minimizing
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daily hassle such as search times we have to decide at some point if a
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corporation knowing we meant apple and not apple is more important than the
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Privacy that we give up because as many have already realized it's no
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coincidence that the advertisements on every page we visit feature the specific
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new game or PC part that we've been drooling over for some time which o well
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um H this is awkward well which
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normally contains the whatever it is you've been drooling over for some time
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and this entices advertisers into purchasing ad space that directly
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targets users who are interested in their products or services at a premium
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even though in this case it clearly misfired something that helps them
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charge more for the ads since the theory does actually work in practice and
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targeted ads have become so commonplace that from my experience folks are now
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not only more likely to click them but even get bothered when they see
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non-targeted irrelevant website ads go
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