[Video] How Google Searches the Entire Web in Less Than Half a Second

It only takes half a second for Google to return a search based on keywords you type in, but there’s a whole lot more happening behind the scenes to give you the results you need. Google launched a video that explains the science behind how the massive search engine actually works.

Matt Cutts, software engineer head of Google’s webspam team, details in a video how the search engine giant thoroughly scours the web on a daily basis to provide the most up-to-date results to users.