"In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin"
- Michael Shermer
About this Quote
This quote by Michael Shermer is referring to the supremacy of Google's online search engine compared to other online search engine. He is highlighting the reality that Google uses an algorithm to rank web pages based on the number of links to them. This algorithm takes into consideration the number of links to the page of origin, which is a step of the page's relevance and significance. This algorithm is what makes Google's search engine so effective and efficient. It is able to quickly and properly recognize the most pertinent websites for a provided search question. This is why Google is considered to be the most popular and successful online search engine in the world.
This quote is written / told by Michael Shermer somewhere between September 8, 1954 and today. He/she was a famous Writer.
The author also have 22 other quotes.
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"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website"
"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"
"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media"
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"
"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing"
