-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Google is full
> today is special - the CEO has admitted that the grand distributed PC > approach hasn't worked. Not to be pedantic, but the definition of "worked" depends on what your requirements are. Google seems (to me) to work pretty well for my purposes and it is easily a better index of most online content than the sites that provide that content. By way of proof, I offer the IBM pubs site :-) No two Google searches give the same results, but the degree of overlap in the first page or so is fairly impressive. I rarely wander past the first few hits anyway unless I am being really picky - and I can save search results anyway. Would my life change in any meaningful way if the search was reproducible, particularly as each search is absurdly fast? Making it reproducible would almost certainly make it orders of magnitude slower. And what would it cost the company (Google) to make it so? Now if I was checking a bank balance, I'd be a whole lot more concerned about reproducibility - and I'd be using a completely different style of system and programming methodology. It's horses for courses. > http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34147.htm > > "Huge machine crisis"? Is there a zSeries salesman in the room? It'd be nicer if that link didn't take you straight to a login screen. Wanna give us the reader's digest version of the supposed problem? CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
