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Binary search doesn't speed up Google, student learns

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A computer science student pondered whether searching the internet using binary code would be faster, given that computers operate on 0s and 1s. However, they learned that search speed is determined by algorithms, indexing, and hardware, not the input format. This realization highlighted the concept of abstraction layers in computing, where user-friendly interfaces translate into binary operations internally. AI

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Binary search doesn't speed up Google, student learns

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ishta P Jain ·

    If computers understand only 0s and 1s, wouldn’t searching in binary make Google faster?

    <p><strong>“If computers understand only 0s and 1s, wouldn’t searching in binary make Google faster?”</strong></p> <p>This was one of the first questions that came into my mind on my <strong>first day of Computer Science class</strong>.</p> <p>And honestly, I had <strong>almost z…

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