leanweb - 9:55 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

doc_z seems to've confirmed that what i think google is doing (accounting for ling geography) is not the case. well, so be it, i am paranoid, nothing new.

but, Dave, just fyi, google does have an "official" paper on how PR works. here it is:

[www-db.stanford.edu...]

this is as official as you going to get. they have few more papers, for example i've seen recently a whitepaper on how their file system works. and there was one on their solution of clustering. google runs off of COTS computers, believe it or not.

all in all they are very open about what they are doing. they sprung off stanford for pete's sake ;)