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Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-can-make-it-better dept.

El Reg writes "As its ten-year-old file system — GFS — struggles to keep up with Gmail, YouTube, and other apps it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement. According to the company, it's two years into a GFS sequel designed specifically for customer-facing apps that require ultra low latency."

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  1. Re:hmm by mysidia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yahoo was originally a web directory, not a conventional search engine. The search results were provided by others.

    In 2000, they signed an agreement with Google, and Yahoo's search was powered by Google, in other words -- if you used Yahoo, you were using Google.

    That didn't change until 2005, and after several other search engine company acquisitions, when they developed their own search technology.

  2. Re:hmm by jcnnghm · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know from June 2000 to February 2004 Google was the backend for the Yahoo web page search. That was back when Yahoo was a web site "human directory" search first and foremost, and only secondarily a machine-powered internet search. Sort of like how Yahoo search is going to be powered by Bing in the future, and was powered by Inktomi before Google.

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  3. Re:hmm by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your recollections are different from mine. Prior to Google, I tended to use AltaVista and Hotbot. Searches took at least ten times as long. Results rarely included any recently created pages. The number of indexed pages was several orders of magnitude less than Google handles today (which in turn is one order of magnitude, or so, greater than current competitors). In spite of the fact that gaming of search engines is overwhelmingly targeted at Google, Google still does a relatively better job of finding the genuinely useful pages. Is Google perfect? No, of course not. Search is still only a partially solved problem. However, since its inception, Google has come up with most of the practical advances in the state of the art, as well as the best infrastructure for its implementation.

  4. Re:hmm by Xemu · · Score: 5, Informative

    It takes absolutely zero effort for this post to be modded funny

    It doesn't take much to be modded informative either.

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