ajay can you give a link to the thesis
i consider it as an important topic because GOOGLE was not the first search engine and came much later than ALTAVISTA etc and in 10 or so years it had become a competitor to MS (though MS isn't our cup of tea) ,it's great to observe the strategies and technologies involved . On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:21 PM, अजय Ajay Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
