Wikipedia's Google entry back from 2001


	Wikipedia's Google entry back from 2001

sohil

7-11-2007 6:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4669c583-d24e-4301-a80c-e8885a242779/D41010D2-F886-4E43-8489-03E6A3B61FB3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" style="font-size: 11px;">nostalgia.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"><P><B>Google</B> is an <A title="Internet" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">Internet</A> <A title="Search engine" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine">search engine</A> founded in <A title="1998" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998">1998</A> by <A title="Larry Page" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page">Larry Page</A> and <A title="Sergey Brin" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin">Sergey Brin</A>, two <A title="Stanford" class="new" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanford&action=edit">Stanford</A> Ph.D. candidates, who developed a technologically advanced method for finding information on the Internet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google">Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"><P>Google uses an algorithm called <A title="PageRank" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank">PageRank</A> to rank web pages that match a given search string. The PageRank algorithm computes a recursive figure of merit for web pages, based on the weighted sum of the PageRanks of the pages linking to them. The PageRank thus derives from human-generated links, and correlates well with human concepts of 'importance'.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"><P>Google employs a farm of about 3500 <A title="Linux" href="http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</A> computers to answer search requests and to index the web about once a month. The index database is several terabytes large.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D41010D2-F886-4E43-8489-03E6A3B61FB3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>