Hello! Regrettably I must disagree with our absent friend. According to a few nameless friends at Google, they are constantly bringing new clusters on line. I should also mention that they have several football field sized rooms of systems.
I strongly suspect that the chap from Google was quoted out of context. And besides, to view the link you've posted, requires a subscription. ---- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dave Jones > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LINUX-390] Google out of capacity? > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
