httpwebwitch - 5:10 am on Dec 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

I think signor_john has a good point. One of the impressive things about Google is its hardware and infrastructure. Most of their infrastructure was custom-designed and incredibly well optimized. Bing, in my imagination, is hosted on a pile of MS-SQL servers running Windows Vista. Ouch.

But as one computer engineer once told me, there are always two solutions to performance problems. Either you optimize and streamline the proceses, or you just throw more hardware at it. Running slow? toss in a few hundred more CPUs, and a few terabytes of RAM. Voila! It's fast again!