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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."
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 -_-;;
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I found this post at google before I wrote it.
"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!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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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?
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.
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Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database
A million gigabytes is what we call a petabyte.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
If it weren't for the competition from Bing, would this have even happened?
On a related note, what's with Apple pimping Bing all of a sudden?
Because, at this point, Google is more of a threat than Microsoft. Apple knows that the chances of OSX catching up to Windows in terms of market share are practically zero. However, Android poses a credible threat to Apple's mobile popularity here in America.
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... productivity.
When Google was new It was a wonder. I could use it to help solve problems (such as identifying error codes when the servers went down), locating reveiws of products (saving me the expense of subscribing to loads of computer magazines and the time searching through them when I needed to buy something) and finding snippets of code when I needed to develop a program. As the web gets older and older there is more and more out of date information that I have to dig through. Plus when Google (and Yahoo) killed off Usenet (with an assist from Andrew Cuomo) the utility of the Usenet information structure has been destroyed (which the world is still trying to recreate with Keywords).
As Google has added more and more information it gets less and less useful. Plus the rise in SEO makes it even harder to find what I need (But I find lots of useless stuff that people have paid to get put in front of my eyes). Of course it probably isn't in Google's best interest to help me locate information that I need in the most efficient way. The more I have to sort through the crap they now deliver the more ad revenue they generate.
Too bad Bing sucks. I would really appreciate and alternative to Google.
They've developed their own.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
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.
A hardware company generally does not compete with a software company.
Apple has a long standing friendly relationship with Microsoft. They even turned to Microsoft to bail them out of a big financial mess not so many years ago.
yes, this is contrary to Apples television advertisements... but those arent reality.
"His name was James Damore."
Google has pulled my site robots.txt file 32 times this month and it is only the 9th - about 4 times a day. I'm showing almost 2000 web pages pulled by Google indexers in this same time period. My site is tiny, private, not very large.
By bandwidth, Google is only 2.4% of the total site traffic, so far, this month.
I agree Google is "fresher" than they used to be. OTOH, my non-commercial site has approximately doubled readers in each of the last 6 months by publishing 1 new posting about every other day.
I suspect other, more use sites are hit hourly or even more often by google.
MSN-Bot appears to visit 10 times a day, but is much more selective about which pages it indexes. Since my site is date organized, this seems smarter than what google does. Some times, I do edit older stories with new knowledge or corrections which google will see, eventually and MSN will not. Zero referrals from any microsoft searches seen.
Yahoo! slurp barely touches my site. Only 1 referral has been seen.
Google sends about 30% of the total traffic, but most is from social networking with "hey, check this out" type referrals. Not bad for a technical article site.
For a hwile now I have been noticing my forum posts being indexed within hours of making the post. It's been doing this for a couple years I think.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
What is a 'price point'? Stop emulating how marketing tells you to speak you dipshit. A price is a 'point' by definition.
AFAIK java is in heavy use at google
java is in heavy use at google but in other places - there is no java involved in serving a search query. with search, it's c++ all the way down.
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.
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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?
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.
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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.