flowilu - 6:35 pm on Apr 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

But several people with knowledge of the system said it consists of more than 54,000 servers designed by Google engineers from basic components. ... THE immense size of the system helps explain why taking on Google will not be easy. "Managing search at our scale is a very serious barrier to entry," Mr. Schmidt said.

[college4.nytimes.com ]