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How a Google Search Travels Around the World [INFOGRAPHIC]
Google has put together an infographic that shows the journey of a search on the site, from how a query travels 1,500 miles at nearly the speed of light to hit different data centers around the world to how it ranks its results.
In an infographic given to Mashable, Google likens the web to a book with millions of pages. The search engine giant has spent one million computing hours building the index, which consists of over 100 million gigabytes. When you conduct a search, Google's algorithms kick in and the query travels hundreds of millions of miles per hour to hit different data centers and retrieve relevant results.
"We find the fastest path to the data center near you because we do…
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