New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine

Ponca City, We love you writes "When Google started, it would only update its index every four months. Then, around 2000, it started indexing every month in a process called the 'Google dance' that took a week to 10 days and would provide different results when searching for the same term from different Google data centers. Now PC World reports that Google has introduced a new web indexing system called Caffeine, which delivers results that are closer to 'live' by analyzing the web in small portions and updating the index on a continuous basis. 'Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale,' writes Carrie Grimes on the official Google Blog. 'Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.' Now not only does Caffeine provide results that are 50% fresher than Google's last index, adds Grimes, but the new search index provides a robust foundation that will make it possible for Google to build a faster and more comprehensive search engine that scales with the growth of information online."

Comments

Altavista

[Pojut]

I miss the days when Altavista was king (purely nostalgia, I assure you). I don't, however, miss getting marked down in Spanish class due to using BabelFish -_-;;

Re:Altavista

[moosesocks]

I miss the days when Altavista was king (purely nostalgia, I assure you). I don't, however, miss getting marked down in Spanish class due to using BabelFish -_-;;

This reminds me of one of my funniest memories from middle school: The Spanish teacher hands back a paper with a big red "F" on it to the guy sitting in front of me. She says: "This is very good.....But, it's in French"

Back in the day, refreshing BabelFish would cause the options to default back to English->French.

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

I found this post at google before I wrote it.

Re:Wow!

[drsmack1]

I think that is because they started using Thiotimoline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline

It's a trick

[For a Free Internet]

"Caffeine" is a NSA code word for a mind controle satellite they build with GOOGLE/Italian money on loan from Chinese Muslim Islamo-Communist sorcerers and vegetarians. It will probably be used to sell your daughters into slavery in Mexico via facebook. That is why our SAVIOR OBAMA must continue to wage the WAR FOR FREEDOM at all costs, because if not the evil Italian axis will enslave us all!!!!!!!!!!!

With the onset of social websites like Facebook

[ThisIsForReal]

Have joking but, it would be great if the indexing was done at a particular time every month like the old system, but the moment of indexing was public. Then, at that time, all facebook users could go and untag and delete anything that may have been wholesome enough to not warrant immediate removal but yet still be considered something that shouldn't be indexed for all eternity.

Caffeine

[morgan_greywolf]

The Caffeine project is approved. The system goes on-line June 9th, 2010. Human decisions are removed from search engine results. Caffeine begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Re:Caffeine

[alphax45]

Caffeine strikes back, turning every result into a "Rickroll" and rendering Google useless.

Competition

[dugn]

If it weren't for the competition from Bing, would this have even happened?

Google Dance

[GameMaster]

Google dance if you want to,
If it helps you search online.
MSN don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
well they're no search engine of mine.

Just A Minor Rant

[BigBlueOx]

Ok, what is it with people who write about technical subjects that they think they have to use ridiculous analogies?

"if this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second"?? Yes, and if this was a goat it would have a thousand young. WTF. This was a Google blog post, not some story-for-the-terminally-stupid from The Daily Show ferchrissakes. The author even measures storage capacity in the universally used miles-of-iPods.

What is the sound of one vein popping?