Here's an interesting post from Phil Payne on the IBM_MAIN list:
Ain't Google wonderful - indexing and cacheing the entire contents of the World Wide Web on loads and loads of PCs? Actually - no. Those who use and try to manage it daily will tell you it's one great chimera - those distributed databases are almost always utterly out of sychronisation - do the same search twice and you'll quite likely get different results. Most Joe Publics don't question Google's results - it comes from a computer, it must be right. Check out on Usenet, if you fancy, the expression "Google dance". But today is special - the CEO has admitted that the grand distributed PC approach hasn't worked. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34147.htm "Huge machine crisis"? Is there a zSeries salesman in the room? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800
You can read the complete thread over there, if you're so inclined.... DJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
