How Many DB'so they use?

[drbill]

Hi,

can anyone tell me how many Databases Fast uses as I can find my listing and then it is gone and hit refresh and it is back again. Is this normal?

[Brett_Tabke]

Not really. Which engine you checking them from? Got a clean search string? I can't reproduce it.

[starec]

The way I understand it, fast is using parallel servers using as distributed nodes, each containing only a part of the index. So, when the they are updating this kind of behavior may occur for quite a long time period, until all the nodes are updated (???). I do not know exactly how the node for each query is selected, but if for some reason your query is handled by different nodes, then you may experience what you are describing. How to know which ones are the new results? If you have made some changes in the titles, you can identify the updated results. If not, you can try to compare the positions...

This is also the way the google servers work, as far as I know. When they are updating, you can be handled by old or new nodes, depends on your luck...

[drbill]

Looks like it is coming right now.. I guess you had it StareC.

Thanks

[Robert Charlton]

I observed the same thing on some comparitive searches on Fast back in mid-March.