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Google handles billions of frantic questions every day

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That is roughly 99,000 queries per second of humanity asking machines why their stomach hurts or how to boil an egg. Google's server farms are essentially acting as the exhausted parents of 8 billion toddlers. The sheer volume of data mined from these searches ensures Google knows more about your anxiety than your therapist does.

Google handles billions of frantic questions every day
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