[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> David Froble via Info-vax
> Sent: 11-Jun-16 10:06 PM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Cc: David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Where to locate software
> 
> Kerry Main wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> >> lawrencedo99--- via Info-vax
> >> Sent: 11-Jun-16 1:47 AM
> >> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> >> Cc: lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
> >> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Where to locate software
> >>
> >> On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 3:05:04 PM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
> >>> Google is unique in that it has unlimited budgets ...
> >> Nobody has unlimited budgets.
> >>
> >>> They also use rack servers only which means huge amounts of
> network
> >>> latency ...
> >> You notice every time you do a Google query, it reports how many
> >> results it found, and how long it took?
> >>
> >> Have you ever implemented a search engine that could report similar
> >> performance?
> >
> > Well, as I recall, AltaVista and NorthernLight used to be pretty
> impressive
> > search engines.
> >
> > NorthernLight is (was?) an OpenVMS based web search engine. Its
> focus
> > today is on Business Market Intelligence and not general web queries.
> >
> > https://northernlight.com/
> > https://northernlight.com/market-intelligence-solutions/
> >
> > Here is testimonial quote from a past OpenVMS brochure:
> > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/L4V13S/L4V13SSC.TXT
> > "We had to have an operating system that could scale our database
> > to billions of documents while providing very fast query times with
> > uninterrupted 24 x 7 availability. Northern Light's Web search engine
> > is the largest text-retrieval database in the history of the world, and it
> > takes the unequaled power, speed and scalability of Compaq
> OpenVMS
> > to run it."
> > - David Seuss, CEO, Northern Light Technology, Inc.
> >
> > Also, more background:
> >
> http://www.terabase.com/appnotes/NorthernLight/html/NorthernLight
> _1.html
> > "Terabase delivered core server technology for the Northern Light
> Web
> > Search Engine by leveraging the Terabase(r)/SRF Search and Retrieval
> > Facility in conjunction with highly reliable OpenVMS Alpha clusters."
> >
> > My understanding is that there is also some UNIX In the solution as
> well.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kerry Main
> > Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com
> 
> Kerry, if you don't put dates on those references, they aren't worth the
> bandwidth  the words use.

David - these references were from the early 2000's (didn't think they would
be confused as current)  to point out where an OpenVMS based search engine 
was on par with Google (at the time) as per the question-

> >> Have you ever implemented a search engine that could report similar
> >> performance?


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com