Google: a different type of search engine

http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/99/oct/1004/feat.htm

This Oct. 4 1999 article in Forbes discusses the google.com search engine along with several others. Google operates in a unique way by evaluating a web page based on the number of other web pages that link to it.

Questions:

1. How does Google differ from Hotbot and Lycos, two other search engines mentioned in the article?

2. How does the approach used by Simpli.com provide differ from that used by Google?

3. How could you estimate the amount of information Google must process to respond to a search query?

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