Monday, January 02, 2006

The zero factor in Google's search algorithm

search results in Google are calculated with an ultra complex formula, which includes metrices like pagerank, backlinks and many other things. Even the fact if one hostname shares its ip address with many others matters.

What if you wanted to have a list of all domains sorted by their importance, no matter for what keyword? Simply neutralize the search term factor by using a null keyword value.

Try searching for http in Google, at this moment it has 12,660,000,000 results.

The winners of the Google algo seem to be Microsoft, the W3C, Altavista, Yahoo and CNN.

Update Nov 2007: this doesn't work anymore - the keyword "http" is now a valid search string

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