Pigeon Rank

Post date: Aug 28, 2010 1:2:15 PM

Forget PageRank: On April Fools' 2002, Google came clean and said the real secret to its search technology was something called PigeonRank. Yes, PigeonRank.

The system, according to a page published at the time, was built by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin during their time at Stanford.

"Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of Web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms," the page said. "And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our Web search tools."

Just imagine all those tiny beaks pecking away with your every search. Man, I'd hate to get on those pigeons' bad side.

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/193185/googles_5_funniest_april_fools_jokes.html