Did you know Google originally used barrels?

 

Here’s an overview of Google’s system architect (at least as it was in 1997)

Can you see the barrels?

Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page presented a paper at a conference in 1997.

According to this, once a page has been indexed, the word occurrences are stored in “barrels”.

once a page has been indexed, the word occurrences are stored in “barrels”.

More about these barrels, and the page rank algorithm, and how Google does what it does (at least in 1997) can be read here:  The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

 

 

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