Happy New Year Group, Hope you had a blast last night, and have a great year ahead.
again of the topic(sorry) > Not sure about the on-topic / off-topic status, but you as a good question. > > > why are search engines so fast in displaying results as compared to other > websites which load simple pages ? > The foremost reason is that the google founders have cared about that particular aspect, and have managed to keep the pages bare minimum to avoid unnecessary http roundtrips. And then every other search engine has had to catch up. Initially yahoo was as pathetically slow as it's homepage now ;) , but their search has moved on to be a tad bit better. It was the topic of one of the google guys' phd thesis. "Anatomy of a large scale hyper text search engine". Don't know if you got to read that or not. But it explains how they had originally organized their search index. Then there are lots of clever *hacks* like : "Computing iceberg queries efficiently" . And there are lots and lots of other optimizations. Right from where to locate the server, to CDN like caching of infrequently changing content, to using the http protocol caching to their advantage, to a lot of things that "YSlow" might point you to. Another area you may want to look into is Network Engineering. > i has searched the google and had not got a satisfactory answer. > Then try changing the question you ask, because however smart the algorithm may be, it still answers very basic questions like "do these terms exist in some of the popular pages". I am sure the answers are somewhere. Cheers, Ajay -- अजय कुमार | Ajay Kumar http://blog.classgrid.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
