On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alef Arendsen wrote: > As far as I can remember Google has started out in a small shed using > just personal computers. No big mainframes, serverfarms or whatever. > Just a proprietary server platform. > > What the status is right now, I don't now...
They still use PCs. Thousands of them. From: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html "Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine." regards, michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
