CNET is running an interesting summary of remarks made by Urs Hoelzle, a VP of engineering at Google. Hoelzle talks about Google's famed server array, and the advantage of many cheap machines over fewer expensive machines. Google anticipates machine failure and budgets for it; this strategy results in very few bomb-outs from the user's perspective, contributing to Google's reputation for reliability, perhaps as much as the quality of its search results. Hoelzle also describes how Google slices the Web into millions of "shards" to speed the engine's responsiveness.
Google's Success: Algorithm or Hardware?
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. I think Google's algorithm is the cause of their success.
http://www.bluefind.com/dir/4206.php
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ConsultingClicks
3. Unlike other engines where information about how the results are obtained are sketchy at best, Google actually publishes information on its site about the results it produces. Hence webmasters have things they can do to produce higher rankings. And that's why I feel Google Algorithm is mainly responsible for Google Success.
4. Unlike other engines where information about how the results are obtained are sketchy at best, Google actually publishes information on its site about the results it produces. Hence webmasters have things they can do to produce higher rankings. And that's why I feel Google Algorithm is mainly responsible for Google Success.
1. It cant be all hardware cause we seen How good MSN is , and those guys got all the money in the world
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Toronto Student