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I’ve suggested before that you should think of each search as a question.

Paid search ads are run in an attempt to raise your hand and deliver answers.

Today Google noted that they are monitoring over 1 trillion URLs, for use in finding the organic rankings which are delivered on search result pages. Wow.

But I was glad to see how they characterized the reason why they’re doing all this work:

As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.

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