Google - The Just-In-Time Information Storage System

[Brett_Tabke]

[oreillynet.com...]

Any data that's public, and that Google can see, is hardly worth storing and organizing. We simply search for what we need, when we need it: just-in-time information management.

Found, via RocketInfo [rocketnews.com] and Searchengineblog [searchengineblog.com].

[jeremy goodrich]

JIT just in time logistics. Don't they teach that at business school? Yep, and I believe the Japanese were the first ones using the principal in manufacturing, etc...cuts down on the wasted money paying for parts, and then using them a year later.

Taking the metaphor a step further, since Google does use Ram and not hard drives to store their searchable db, I wonder what other modifications future enhancements might bring to their storage and archiving of media?

[ciml]

> hardly worth storing and organizing

Quite. How often do we need to remember some nugget that we're sure we used to know? I realised some time ago that dejanews was solving that problem for me better than I could myself. Nowadays WebmasterWorld contains a lot of the essential pieces of information I need day to day.

For example, I used to keep a Google update history on my PC, but it's quicker and easier to type google update history in to the Toolbar and read the definitive version.