🐦🔍 #OTD 2002 Google revealed the secret of its search ranking tech: pigeons.

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#OTD 2002 Google revealed the secret of its search ranking tech: pigeons.

April Fools! PigeonRank claimed queries were sent to a “data coop,” where flocks watched flashing results and pecked rubber bars to rank pages in true pecking order.

Revisit this fine feathered foolishness on the Wayback Machine ️
https://web.archive.org/web/20020401000000/http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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