Apparently the World-Wide Wibble is growing at a speed of a billion pages a day.
Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google's Web Search Infrastructure Team said that Google didn't have to index every one of those trillion pages as many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content.
It said that it re-processes the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, it does the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States.
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Google has become so synonymous with Internet search that it may no longer matter how good Cuil or any other challenger is, said Gartner Inc. (IT) analyst Allen Weiner.
and that was the end of 'cuil' (what a ridiculous name)
i never thought that such a website with a name like that exist...
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zonneke wrote:
and that was the end of 'cuil' (what a ridiculous name)
Cuil is actually an old Irish word(possibly Gaelic but I'm not too sure) meaning 'Knowledge' so personally I think its well thought out and clever, despite how bad the search engine actually is
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i never thought that such a website with a name like that exist...
I bet no one thought a website called Google would exist either once upon a time
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i never thought that such a website with a name like that exist...
