Hello Ian
On 16-May-00, Ian Greenway wrote:
> How does a search engine work then? It holds (allegedly) millions of
> page references, usually at least a 256-character keyword string for
> each, often a more descriptive text. The storage space alone must be
> phenomenal, and even with advanced hash-tables and whatever it seems
> weird that it can search it all and create the answers within a few
> seconds - and do it for thousands of requests repeatedly. Do they use
> some other scheme, or is it really as brute-force as it sounds?
Sorry this is a bit late, but you might find this and the various other pages
off it interesting. Quite amazing bit of technology.
http://www.fast.no/fast.php3?d=about
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