On: PageRank explained

[kwanbix]

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?

[SJC_Hacker → kwanbix]

It starts with seed URLs and fans out from there

Back in 1996, this could be done by hand

[kwanbix → SJC_Hacker]

thanks! I imagined it will be something like that. Maybe Google used yahoo index back then as seed?

[orsenthil → kwanbix]

Yes. I think, there used be a directory of a links published, like an index.