Thank you for this Fiona. On a slightly more serious note - Google was found
by this week's Web User to be the best search engine for finding answers
with less mouse clicks than other fact-finding sites. Ask Jeeves came in
third, sometimes averaging 13 clicks before answers were found.
Them pigeons must work....
Andy Richardson
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust
Woolwich
----- Original Message -----
From: "McLean, Fiona" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: FW: The technology behind Google's great results
> Not work related- just light relief.
>
> All is revealed at:
>
> http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
>
> [Don't forget that Monday was April 1st!]
>
> Fiona
>
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