On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:39:19PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> > So where is the perl portion?  All this code does is makes two tables,
> > and a simple select statement.  Where is the data, where is the
> > interface, what does perl have to do with it?
>
> Well, the question was about how they serve the results so fast
> ... a simple select from simple tables ...

Google? I doubt it, I read that part of the reason for their massive
clustering is that
a. they keep the index in memory
b. it's a tree structure based on their own C++ library
c. any given query is handed to dozens of machines and then integrated

a reasonable clear discussion (at a fairly high-level) is at
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html



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