
Google's Secret
Formula
In the past 12 months, Google
doubled its staff, tinkered with its search engine to speed up results, and now
answers more queries than Microsoft and
Yahoo combined. But there’s one query we had to answer ourselves: How does Google work?
Blame spell-check. Ten years ago
this September, so the story goes, some Stanford grad students were helping Larry Page choose a name for his search
engine. “Googolplex,” said...