How Search works
For a typical query, there are thousands, even millions, of webpages with potentially relevant information.
So, how does Google figure out what to show in your search results? Well, the journey starts before you even type your search…
Crawling and indexing
As we speak, Google is using web crawlers to organize information from webpages and other publicly available content in the Search index.
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Search algorithms
Google ranking systems sort through hundreds of billions of webpages in the Search index to give you useful and relevant results in a fraction of a second.
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Useful responses
With more content and in a wider variety on the Internet than ever before, Google makes sure to offer you search results in a range of rich formats to help you find the information you’re looking for quickly.
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From the beginning, Search has been guided by three core values.