Google Empire- Technology Behind the Giants

Google is a company that is world famous for having the most popular search engine on the internet. This paper looks at the technology that Google use to bring such fast and reliable service. It covers some background about the internet and previous search engines, moving onto look at how a Google query is resolved, taking an in depth look at the PageRank algorithm that Google use to order their search results. It continues to look at Bigtable the technology behind Google Earth and several other services. Going down to look at the Google File System that is the underlying basis for all their hardware. This shows you that all of Google’s Technology is based on tried and tested data structures, algorithms and technologies that have stood the test of time. Google is an extremely successful company and you can learn a lot from the technologies behind the biggest company on the internet