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takagi - 9:37 am on May 13, 2004 (gmt 0)


Hello cutting, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I have no idea how much traffic Gigablast sees, but I'd be surprised if they're handling millions of searches per day over 200M pages on just $8,000 of hardware.

Well, most of the answers are in the message just before your posting

Handling 40 queries per second for a whole day would result in handling 3.5 million queries a day. I'm not sure if Gigablast can really handle 40 queries per second for 24 hours, but even at 60% of that peak load it still would be able to handle more than 2 million queries per day. BTW, Gigablast is now searching 321 million pages which is about the maximum on the the 5TB Matt Wells mentioned in the interview.

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