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5 Mar
This is a pretty enlightening view into the innards of Google. It’s much more palatable than your typical view into innards if I do say so myself! Interesting that Google runs off of the Red Hat distro of Linux, and that it’s common for several of the servers to break every day. 10 Billion web pages indexed and Terabytes of data spread over hundreds of servers…it kind of makes your head spin.
/Chase
Peeking Into Google: “BURLINGAME, Calif. — The key to the speed and reliability of Google (Quote, Chart) search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said. “
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Is it just me or is the below quote kind of scary in a Terminator kind of way?
“The company also is applying machine learning to its system to give better results. Theoretically, he said, if someone searches for “Bay Area cooking class,” the system should know that “Berkeley courses: vegetarian cuisine” is a good match even though it contains none of the query words.”
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