On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:25:57PM -0400, ravi wrote: > i posted this already, but i will repeat my question: could you explain > further what you mean by the "web scales to 5b+ documents"? and who are > the computer scientists who are surprised by this?
I've already explained it, so I won't do so again. I'm not gonna go 'round and 'round about this, Ravi, since it's not really germane to my question. I'm starting to regret including any surrounding context. > there are some interesting questions with respect to scaling and the web > -- for instance, the issue of scaling individual servers w.r.t > simultaneous access. Yes, of course. But that's not what I meant, but I suggest we move this off-list if you want to talk about it further. Those specific issues aren't relevant to my real question. Kendall Clark
