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Feb 2020
20m 27s

#31: How Google Works

Leonardo English
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It's the most visited website in the world, with 80,000 searches per second. But have you ever actually wondered how it really works?

In today's episode we'll take a look at how this technology giant really works.

  • 🔠 Alphabet & Google
  • 🖥 What does 'The Internet' actually mean?
  • 🕷 Google Spider
  • 🤔 How does Google decide what results to show you?
  • ❓ How does Google decide how websites are good or bad?
  • 📊 Relevance, Quality, and User Experience
  • 💵 How Google makes $6,000 a second
  • 🛎 How Google Ads work
  • 💍Why advertisers pay almost $1,000 for one click
  • 📍 3 weird facts about Google - 1) How many new queries are asked every day, 2) How far a search travels and 3) How many computers are used in a single Google search?

Key vocabulary: On the hunt, Junk, Crawlers, Algorithm, Scanning, Adopt, Straightforward, Obscure, Trustworthy, Likewise, Popups, Tend, Tradeoff, Delicate, Distinctive, Rank, Auction, Bid, Indicate, Asbestos, Bidding, Implications, Round trip, Scratched the surface

Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/how-google-works


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