- Sep 29, 2000
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how the hell does google get away with those ridculous search times?
I figure that the average webpage is 20k so they must have 1.32 billion * 20k which gives us 26.4 terabytes of data that needs to be stored on a server.
my hard drive has 4 Gb of data or approxamaty 65000 times less.
using the windows find command and searching for the word "cat" took 12 mins or 7200 seconds
using google it took 0.09 seconds which means that it was 80000 times as long.
using this test, google would be 65000*80000 times as fast or 5.2 billion times as fast.
specs for my machine are: celeron 413MHz, 64MB ram, 6GB Quantum 5400rpm HD (searched on second partition)
I know my computer is a POS but google's hardware and software need to be 5.2 billion times as effecient to work that fast. what I really want to know is does anyone have the hardware specs for google so I can drool all over them?
I figure that the average webpage is 20k so they must have 1.32 billion * 20k which gives us 26.4 terabytes of data that needs to be stored on a server.
my hard drive has 4 Gb of data or approxamaty 65000 times less.
using the windows find command and searching for the word "cat" took 12 mins or 7200 seconds
using google it took 0.09 seconds which means that it was 80000 times as long.
using this test, google would be 65000*80000 times as fast or 5.2 billion times as fast.
specs for my machine are: celeron 413MHz, 64MB ram, 6GB Quantum 5400rpm HD (searched on second partition)
I know my computer is a POS but google's hardware and software need to be 5.2 billion times as effecient to work that fast. what I really want to know is does anyone have the hardware specs for google so I can drool all over them?