Organizing the world’s information

Since Google's creation more than 22 years ago, we have remained committed to our ambitious goal of arranging the world's information and making it broadly usable. Although we first focused on arranging online pages, our purpose has always been far broader. We didn't set out to organise only the material on the web, but the information available worldwide.

Google quickly grew beyond the web and started exploring new angles on how to comprehend the world and make knowledge and information more widely available. Since those early days, a lot has changed on the internet and in the world, and we've continued to develop Google Search to anticipate and meet users' ever-changing information demands.

It's not surprising that today's search results may not resemble those you saw in 1998. As a result, we wanted to give a general overview of the sources of the information on Google and, in a separate post, discuss how we go about organising the vast amount of web pages, photographs, videos, real-world insights, and other types of information that are available.

information from the public internet

Web listings on Google—the recognisable "blue link" results that direct you to pages from all across the internet—are presumably already familiar to you. These listings, along with numerous other elements on the search results page, point to pages on the public internet that we have crawled and indexed in accordance with guidelines supplied by the sites' designers.

Site owners have more specific capabilities to choose which parts of a website should appear as a text snippet on Google Search, as well as the ability to tell our web crawler (Googlebot) which pages to crawl and index. With the help of our developer tools, site owners can decide whether they want to be found on Google and optimise their websites for better presentation in order to attract more free traffic from those looking for the products and services they are selling.

One method individuals find information and websites is through Google Search. Since Google's founding, we have been sending billions of visitors per day to websites all around the internet.

The general public's knowledge and data sources

Unique content, goods, and services are the result of the efforts of creators, publishers, and companies of all sizes. Information that wasn't specifically developed or that doesn't "belong" to any one person, but rather encapsulates a body of widely accepted truths, also falls under the category of common knowledge. Consider a historical figure's birthdate, the height of South America's largest mountain, or simply the current day.

Via a number of Google Search features, such as knowledge panels, we assist individuals in finding these kinds of facts quickly. The Data Commons Project, an open knowledge database of statistical data we started in collaboration with the U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat, World Bank, and many others, is where the information comes from. Other openly licenced sources include Wikipedia, The Encyclopedia of Life, Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 Data, The Encyclopedia of Life, and The Encyclopedia of Science.

The outcome of calculations is another category of common knowledge, and Google frequently generates this data directly. So, Google computes the answers to your questions whether you search for a conversion of time ("What time is it in London?"), a measurement ("How many pounds in a metric tonne?"), or information such as the square root of 348. Interesting fact: we also use latitude and longitude to determine the times of sunrise and sunset for specific areas!

partnerships and licences

Unstructured data, such as words and phrases on web pages, is more difficult for our automated systems to comprehend when it comes to information organisation. Our systems can comprehend, arrange, and show information in useful features and forms much more easily thanks to structured databases, including public knowledge bases like Wikidata.

There are providers who work to organise information in an organised style and give technical solutions (like APIs) to deliver new information for particular specific categories of data, such as sports scores, details about TV series and movies, and song lyrics. To guarantee that suppliers and creators (such as music publishers and artists) are paid for their efforts, we licence data from these businesses. When people hunt for this information on Google, they can access it right away.

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