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ELI5: How do search engines get results so quickly? (by Sparky)
(30 / M-F / Massachusetts)
ELI5: How do search engines get results so quickly?
When I look something up on google or look up a name on Instagram I get results nearly immediately despite there being like billions of results for the search to look through. Even just making a search for a specific file on my laptop takes a while, so how do companies like these do it so fast?
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When I look something up on google or look up a name on Instagram I get results nearly immediately despite there being like billions of results for the search to look through. Even just making a search for a specific file on my laptop takes a while, so how do companies like these do it so fast?
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