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In this episode series, Luigi and Ravi explore the fascinating revolution and impact of search. In this Part I of the search series, they will uncover mind-boggling search statistics that highlight the immense scale of search engines, with Google at the forefront, handling a staggering 8.5 billion searches per day. Also how multimodal search, including the revolutionary Google Lens, is transforming the way we interact with search engines, answering a mind-blowing 8 billion queries every month. Luigi and Ravi unearth the hidden secrets of search algorithms with crawling, indexing, and ranking, and understand how factors such as keywords, links, location, and freshness influence search rankings. They will also unravel the complexities of handling edge cases, like providing up-to-the-minute news and differentiating search results based on location. Finally, the episode examines the ever-evolving nature of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP), from local results and universal search to rich snippets and knowledge graphs.Support Design By Us: Follow designbyus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/designbyus_fm Find more content and support us on Patreon: https:/www.patreon.com/designbyusWhere to find Luigi and Ravi: Check out: byus.design Follow Luigi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luigi_dintrono Follow Ravi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raviisoccupiedReferenced: AMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages Google Ads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads SEO is ruining the web: https://web.archive.org/web/20200410011122/https://www.superhighway98.com/seo How Google Search Works: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/how-search-works A Visual History of SERPs: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2017/03/29/a-visual-history-of-google-serps-1996-to-2017/ How Google Search Works Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKVizvYSUQ Google Search Results Quality Guidelines: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf Social search: https://frontier.com/resources/exploring-the-secrets-of-search Search engine desktop market share: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-share-of-search-engines/ Samsung considers Bing: https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phones-tablets-bing-search-replace-google-default-search-engine/ Google Estimated to be Paying $15bn to Apple: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2021/08/27/google-estimated-to-be-paying-15-billion-to-remain-default-search-engine-on-safari/ Timeline of Web Search Engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines Infoseek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek ALIWEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIWEB Conversational Search: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/bing-chat?form=MT00D8&ch--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designbyus/message



