CHAPTER 8 Using the Google Directory and Google Knol

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Google indexes billions of web pages in its search database. That’s both good and bad. The huge volume of pages virtually guarantees that you’ll find something useful, but all that volume sometimes makes it difficult to separate that one useful page from the thousands (or millions) of less-useful ones. It’s kind of a needle-in-a-haystack problem.

By indexing literally billions of web pages, the Google search engine employs a brute-force approach. You get plenty of quantity, but the quality of results isn’t always up to par.

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