100 petabytes of information (100 million GiB) feeding their index is more than I would have expected.
Our new search index: Caffeine
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#12Wow is that ever a terrible infographic.
I agree. The depiction of old index looks better, that to me means failure to communicate on their part.
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#14Wow is that ever a terrible infographic.
Without reading the article (and ignoring the captions), you'd think the left side was better.
Ordered and color-coded, as opposed to flying around.
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#15Java or C++
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't tell if it was a joke... "magic internet stuff here"
You think for a moment that at least maybe the different content types are allocated different colors, but, no, they're all dark blue. One of two dark blue orbits in Caffeine.
Perhaps they were the best blues of the 41 shades...
(cf. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html)
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#17100 petabytes of information (100 million GiB) feeding their index is more than I would have expected.
On the other hand it doesn't seem that much when you consider todays storage density.
You can fit around 0.5 PB into one rack nowadays. 200 racks then sounds a bit less impressive than 100 Petabytes.
However, that ofcourse doesn't account for redundancy, nor for doing anything useful with such a pile of data. Both of which impose some interesting challenges at that scale.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't tell if it was a joke... "magic internet stuff here"
Considering they had that page with pigeons to explain how pagerank works, I would assume it's not supposed to be very serious.
The pigeon ranking page was an April 1st joke. It's exactly funny in one day of the year. Saying how you'll rank 85% of web searches is a little bit more serious business.
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#19100 petabytes of information (100 million GiB) feeding their index is more than I would have expected.
I too am skeptical of the hundreds of millions of gigabytes per day.
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#20That is an enormous amount of data. I wonder how much is junk?
You're new to the Internetz, right? :)