The official marker provided by Go Search cut straight into businesspeople's and ordinary internet users' need for authentic information.
As long as it was a public webpage on the internet, there seemed to be nothing Go Search could not find.
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In the computer lab at the University of California, Berkeley, Eric was studying Go Search's ranking logic.
He entered several obscure terms related to C Language into the search box and looked at the returned results list.
Their crawler program covered an extremely wide range.
Eric described his observations to his roommate behind him.
As long as a webpage was publicly posted on the internet, it could almost always be indexed.
And the ranking mechanism was very clear.
His roommate leaned closer to the screen and watched for a while.
The current search-matching mechanism still could not handle relatively complex, long natural-language sentences.
His roommate pointed out the technical limitation.
If you entered a complete, long interrogative sentence, the system would only break the sentence down into individual words, then match webpages containing those words, and the results would deviate to some extent.
But this was already enough.
Eric switched through several different search terms.
For internet users at the current stage, precise word-related matching was the most commonly used demand.
As long as the keywords were entered accurately, the webpages with the highest relevance would be ranked at the very top.
There were almost no omissions.
More important was the way they handled large enterprises and important websites.
Eric entered Microsoft's English name.
Ranked first was Microsoft's official website, with a conspicuous official marker and the company's full name.
Only after that came news and posts from various technical forums discussing vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems.
This avoided interference from similar information.
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