How does Google really work?

This is the first clear and concise explanation I’ve ever read.  I didn’t realize they did their magic using PC’s (pigeon clusters).

Page and Brin experimented with numerous avian motivators before settling on a combination of linseed and flax (lin/ax) that not only offered superior performance, but could be gathered at no cost from nearby open space preserves. This open space lin/ax powers Google’s operations to this day, and a visit to the data coop reveals pigeons happily pecking away at lin/ax kernels and seeds.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Jad

    heh

    Note: This page was posted for April Fool's Day – 2002.

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    hogiemo

    AAAaaaaw man, I just thought I learned something about technology which I understood, PC (pigeon cr-p!).

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