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Google and Their Server Farm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-heard-there-are-at-least-fifty-boxes-in-it dept.

JR writes "CNet has a very interesting story about Google, operating systems, and where Google may be going. The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm."

3 of 490 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not surprised by (1+-sqrt(5))*(2**-1) · · Score: 3, Informative
    Maybe [Google cache]'ll go on like that forever. Maybe it won't.
    Google's NOARCHIVE opt-out seems to work well enough for jealous parties; there have been claims, though, of an adherent rank-drop.
  2. Re:Not surprised by Lord+Satri · · Score: 4, Informative
    I am not letting go of my dual G5 or OS X

    You like Google and MacOS X? You'll like this then: http://labs.google.com/googlex/ ;-)

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    Animoog.org
  3. Re:Not surprised by T-Ranger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Caching is a specific capability of HTTP. The web is desigined around having caching servers. If you make information available via HTTP, then you are allowing it to be accessed via HTTP, which means you are allowing caching.

    HTTP does not require caching, however: If you dont want caching, set the approiate HTTP headers. Dont complain that you dont understand the technology that you are using.