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Google's Technology Explored
RobotWisdom writes "Internetnews offers a moderately detailed peek at Google's technology. For example, they use stripped-down Red Hat on a massively redundant network, and they're starting to have success with automatic clustering of concepts, so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page." Additional analysis on InformationWeek and C|Net. From the article: "As a search query comes into the system, it hits a Web server, then is split into chunks of service. One set of index servers contains the index; one set of machines contains one full index. To actually answer a query, Google has to use one complete set of servers. Since that set is replicated as a fail-safe, it also increases throughput, because if one set is busy, a new query can be routed to the next set, which drives down search time per box."
Excavated? I think not!
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Has Slashdot turned into Googleappledot? Gooppledot.org?
With technology like Spotlight bringing Google-like searches to the desktop, what's to stop Apple bringing this technology to the web in some way and creating their own search engine to compete with Google?
Somehow, I think (hope?) an Apple search engine would have much less storefront product links and spam pages littering their results.
Brings up an interesting point... Last night we were offered "free" Guinness pint glasses with each Guinness purchased. We were told they were 20oz glasses. Pints aren't 20oz we said.
591ml on the box the bartender claimed. Like anyone in the USA knows how many ounces that equates to...
Google knew though: 591 ml = 19.9840873 US fluid ounces.
They weren't lying about the size of the glass but we determined w/their incorrect pour and the resulting Guinness head that we were ending up with 17.0568431 ounces anyway.
Luckily for the bartender (and the drunk/ditzy waitress) we had Google and wireless Internet.
Did you mean: ass pounding