Is Google's seach algorithm as closely guarded as the Coca Cola formula?

[brawnypandora0]

Is this algorithm thingy the reason why Goggle is the most popular search engine? Is this algorithm copyrighted?

[haqking]

Is this algorithm thingy the reason why Goggle is the most popular search engine? Is this algorithm copyrighted?

hardly.

It uses spiders that constantly crawl the web.

Then boolean operators to search.

Though since you mentioned coca-cola there could be a nice segue into google caffeine ;-) but i might of lost you with my humor.

[3Miro]

I thought their algorithm has been published and it a public knowledge.

[haqking]

I thought their algorithm has been published and it a public knowledge.

yeah it is well known

http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/technology/pigeonrank.html

along with some wildcards and XOR thats about it ;-)