Google
The Latest in Search Engine Design

Add URL Page: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Update frequency: 30-120 days
Size: Approx. 100 Million Pages
Traffic: 3-4 Million Searches Daily

History

Google.com was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University Computer Science Ph.D students. Originally located in a house with a hot tub in Menlo Park during it's early days, Google moved to the new "Google-Plex" -- an office in downtown Palo Alto -- in early 1999.

Since the early days in 1998, Google has received excellent reviews by those in the media and generated the interest necessary to get funding to make them a "player". In June of 1999 Google was chosen as the fall-through search engine for Netscape search and is a premier search engine on the Netcenter Portal. This resulted in a gigantic increase in traffic for the new engine, and put them on our "radar" screen as a search engine with enough traffic to make it worth while to work with. Google now receives around 3-4 million searches per day. With that kind of traffic, it's a site you should try to rank highly on.

How does it work?

Google makes extensive use of a feature called "PageRank" which you will find is somewhat similar to Infoseek's "Link Popularity" system. In simple terms the "PageRank" algorithm measures the sites that have links to the web page, how popular the sites are that link to the page, the text content and the...