Google Caffeine jolts worldwide search machine Google has completed the roll-out of its next-generation search infrastructure, the indexing system overhaul known as "Caffeine." According to the company, the new setup provides "50 per cent fresher" results than its previous system. Mountain View rolled out a public test of the Caffeine index in a single data center last …
Is it really necessary to use these bizarre allegorical units of measurement? It's like back in grammar school, with the teachers saying odd things like "T-Rex was taller than 4 basketball players standing on each other's shoulders." Considering how seldom you see such strange acts of acrobatic inanity, it doesn't really help you picture it. Makes it worse, as you then have to imagine why the hell the ballplayers would attempt such a stunt.
"At the moment, the index takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one (distributed) database, and new information is added at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes each day."
Which, on the face of it, means that in the next fortnight or so the index will have doubled in size. I wonder what Google has been doing all these years?
start cracking down on these blatant standards abuses (especially by their own contributors)?
Surely three miles per second should be 34486.7226 linguines per second, or even 34.9144 Brontosauruses (Brontosauri?) per second!
Another shocking omission is the actual amount of data stored. Assuming 160 GB as the capacity of the largest iPod, the current size of the index translates to a staggering 94 porn years and growing by the second.
Mind-boggling, to say the least.
I mean seriously, WTF is this? If I wanted to look at Athena style poster art all day I'd go to an art store! Why on earth have they forced a set of disgusting full screen photo art on everyone?
Shouldn't this have been an opt-in not an opt-out? Someone's gonna get fired for this - it's gonna seriously antagonise a lot of ppl who didn't ask to be distracted.
EPIC, EPIC FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.
"Gives you incredibly fast results but costs an arm and a leg so you'll prostitute yourself to pay for it, makes you lose contact with reality and ultimately induces paranoia. Wait..."
I think you're thinking of iMeth, which from the sounds of it is what Steve Jobs has been taking.
Anyone who runs a busy website (especially one with a large volume of content) will know their server(s) spend most of the time servicing HTTP requests from the numerous web search outfits - Google, Yahoo, MSN, Baidu, Cuil, Yandex etc.
It's such an inefficent way to create a directory of the web - a massively duplicated effort wasting huge amounts of bandwidth, processing and power.
"It's such an inefficent way to create a directory of the web - a massively duplicated effort wasting huge amounts of bandwidth, processing and power."
then find out which search engines are directing users to your site and block the engines that are just wasting your time. If it's as big a problem as you claim, you would have taken the initiative to do that already.
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