Comment on PageRank explainedComments−kwanbix17dWhat I always wonder is, how does google knows how to go to abc.com, xyz.com, mypage.com, etc. so it can crawl them?−SJC_Hacker16dIt starts with seed URLs and fans out from thereBack in 1996, this could be done by hand−kwanbix16dthanks! I imagined it will be something like that. Maybe Google used yahoo index back then as seed?−orsenthil16dYes. I think, there used be a directory of a links published, like an index.
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What I always wonder is, how does google knows how to go to abc.com, xyz.com, mypage.com, etc. so it can crawl them?
It starts with seed URLs and fans out from there
Back in 1996, this could be done by hand
thanks! I imagined it will be something like that. Maybe Google used yahoo index back then as seed?
Yes. I think, there used be a directory of a links published, like an index.