How does the Google Search Works?

Here’s a video that showes how the Google Search works. The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results.

Many thanks to Matt Cutts for giving us the possibility to look behind the Google curtain quite a bit.

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