Before going into the depth of Google architecture first get a dip into some other parlances of Google Architechture . Google, is a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages is available at http://google.stanford.edu.


Google is a large-scale search engine which addresses many of the problems of existing systems. It makes especially heavy use of the additional structure present in hypertext to provide much higher quality search results. It is called, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10 to the power100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines.

The Google search engine has two important features that help it produce high precision results. First, it makes use of the link structure of the Web to calculate a quality ranking for each web page. This ranking is called PageRank and Second, Google utilizes link to improve search.