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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."
because the results will now be fairly half-assed and kind of jittery? On a related note, what's with Apple pimping Bing all of a sudden?
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.
If you don't want it indexed for all eternity, don't post it on the web.
Even if you knew when Google was coming and you took it down, you have no influence over anyone else out there who may have saved that incriminating evidence. Anyone out there can take a screenshot and post it themselves.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
The only way that OS X would catch up to Windows in terms of market share, is if either A) they dramatically dropped the price point for Macs, or B) they licensed the software for white-box PCs. In either case, their brand would be diluted. They sort of thrive on a high-margin, low-volume model, and I'm not sure they were ever really competing with Microsoft in the way people imagine, especially being primarily a hardware company from the start.
If it weren't for the competition from Bing, would this have even happened?
Probably not, but that's the great thing about competition. The consumer wins when 2 or more businesses compete (most of the time that is).
wrong. they don't pay for showing ads, they pay if YOU click ads.
if they serve you with crappy results, the advertisement targeted is going to suck.
on the other hand, if they provide accurate results, there is a chance the ads being shown are interested for you.
you don't think google is efficient or helpful?
go one week not using it and then decide if google is not making you more productive.
Typical humans (non /.-ers, like us) are more familiar with gigabytes, because that is base unit of measure used in today's PCs. e.g. 6 GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive.
The blogger intentionally used GB in order to express the size of the data relative to today's average PC, because she knows her audience. Imagine that.
Dr Evil: "I demand 100 Petabytes!"
Tim Robbins: "That number doesn't exist! It's like saying I want a kajillion bajillion gigabytes!"
Disclaimer: I did not mean to imply you were Dr. Evil.
It is in Googles best interest to give you the best search results. That is how they got big. They can only sell your eyes if you are using them.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
IMO, real product reviews are hard to find because of SEO. Everything else he mentioned I have no problem with.
The government can't save you.
It's easy:
http://www.google.com/?q="mysearchterm"&modifier="no_empty_review_sites+no_sites_hosted_by_godaddy"
I miss the days when Google was a simple, plain HTML page resulting from the fact that it was driven by its designers and users. Now arrogant marketing VPs with no clue whatsoever push on us "features" like fade-ins (which do wonders when viewed over RDP and VNC links) and side bars while ignoring all negative feedback and making sure that no opt-out is possible to stroke their towering egos by pretending that everyone loves their "innovations". Otherwise 80% of users would have it off in an instant and the "innovator" VP's stupidity would register with some other VPs at Google HQ and give them ammo in some back-stabbing corporate ladder-climbing moves.
In other words I miss the days before Google jumped the shark.
Calling a Mac a PC is disingenuous much in the same way as calling a cordless phone a mobile phone. Yes, your cordless phone is mobile in the technical sense, but common usage has given the words distinct meanings. Mobile no longer only refers to the fact that it enables mobility, and PC no longer only refers to the fact that it's your own personal computer rather than a server or mainframe.
You: "Hey man, I got a new PC the other day."
Friend: "Cool, dude! What kind did you get?"
You: "An iPhone."
Friend: "Uh..."
Yeah, technically the iPhone is a personal computer. Just don't tell your friends or they'll think you're off your rocker.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
You do know many spam/exploit bots use your robots file to look for admin logins or sensitive info. Just because the browser agent was the same as Google doesn't mean it really was, you have to check the agent's IP to be reasonably sure it's legit. Considering that Google even says they have previously only indexed sites every 10 days, it's much more likely you have 3 Google indexes and 29 exploit scans.