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Until you have tons of people using your search engine at the same time it's not a computing intensive task at all. Just storage.

Blades and racks and all that crap are great but really hard drives in a white box work just fine.

Backing up is pointless - you are rebuilding your crawl constantly.

Of course the thing we kept saying was: buy google, buy google, buy google. This was 98 (I think) and $250 million would have worked despite their protests. Certainly a better buy than FrontPage and SoftImage.

]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Sure, one could get better hardware, but a bunch of PCs will do for a start.
I bet it didn't stay like that too long.
Why is there only 1 screen on ?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/
Pretty cool]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/
"see Is'nt he clever, he can crawl and everything... just the other day he did the cutest thing..."]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/
Props to www.google.com for taking advantage of it!

-- Neel K. Sanghi
www.sanghi.tv
]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/It would be funny to see them next to the old ones.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/16/google-like-its-1999/
I'm being shocked !

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