Google sharpens focus on AI for search

Mumbai: Typing a query in an online search box is straightforward for users. It's not so for search engines that have to crawl trillions of pages, track links on them, sort them by content, then index the pages and also have their algorithms understand what the queries mean before dishing out the answers--all in less than a second. More so, for a company like Google, which processes billions of searches daily--making search "core" to the company's mission of organizing "the world's information" and making it "universally accessible and useful". When Google was founded in September 1998, it was serving around 10,000 search queries per day. The company now processes more than 40,000 every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion per year worldwide, according to internetstatslive.com.