BillyS - 11:39 pm on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

BillyS most of what you state is obvious; of course G is concerned about computational efficiency. But do you really believe that G is incapable of handling all those queries to the point that they are not showing thousands of newer sites? To make their db easier to maintain? Wall St. would love that. ;-) This has nothing to do with the (so-called) sandbox, or the topic of this thread.

caveman -

To answer your question - G does not have the computational power. What do you think, that they are doing one search a day through 8 billion records? They are handling hundreds of millions of queries and wall street could give a flying fox about databases.

It's not about maintaining a database, it is about delivering fast and accurate results. Wall Street might like to hear they have thousands of servers, but they fall asleep when engineers start talking about star schemas and normalized databases.

This has everything to do with this topic, there are limits to everything and the sandbox is another limitation. If you were designing a database this size, would you let just any site in your index if it did not pass a filter?

And why in the world would an engineer create an index based on the number of times a word or phrase appears? Think of the end game, then you know where to start. Those of you that have built databases in the terabyte range, know what I am talking about.