[Info-vax] OT: Google Image Search

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Apr 7 13:58:24 EDT 2012


On 4/7/2012 10:47 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> Indeed.  There is also the feature that results are returned while one
> is typing in the search terms and are updated to reflect the query
> becoming more and more exact.

That is common in web apps today.

Google just have a bit more data than most.

> Someone told me that Google has so many computers and upgrades them so
> often that they don't even bother removing them from the containers they
> arrive in.  :-)

Other say that they are velcroed into the racks.

But sure they have a lot of servers.

Most estimates are in the 0.9-1.8 million range.

Arne






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