Google Gooing ... Goone?
Posted by: [NT] on: 06/15/2003 08:58 AM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 3182 views
Apparently there are rumours running around web but not confirmed by Google itself that "Google might be running out of space".
The article states: "A rumour is spreading like the plague over the infinite paths of the Internet: Google has reached overbooking. The most popular creature in the virtual universe has space problems, or, more precisely, it could have them in the future. In fact, is seems that the most popular search engine in the world is about to reach the limit of its capacity of listed pages: 4,294,967,296. A numeric problem that is mainly due to a calculation error." ... contd.
"In Google?s giant database, each link can occupy the space of only 4 bytes. In other words, even though the home page of the system has counted something like three million web pages, it is probable that the engine is about to run out. Or, if they do not change their system of listing links, the Internet will continue to grow and expand behind Google?s back, but the new sites that will be created will be left out while its database will be full of an enormous quantity of obsolete pages that will crowd the pages of search results". Warp2 uk.gsmbox.com for full readage. News source: via Neowin.net
"In Google?s giant database, each link can occupy the space of only 4 bytes. In other words, even though the home page of the system has counted something like three million web pages, it is probable that the engine is about to run out. Or, if they do not change their system of listing links, the Internet will continue to grow and expand behind Google?s back, but the new sites that will be created will be left out while its database will be full of an enormous quantity of obsolete pages that will crowd the pages of search results". Warp2 uk.gsmbox.com for full readage. News source: via Neowin.net
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3014 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
maybe this will help to make google at least a bit usefull for spezified searches ... @google ... not mass quality plz ... its a shame that there is no real alternative as a web site ... copernic rocks ... |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3014 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
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Lithorus Unregistered |
I would imagine they just upgrade to 64-bit and the problem should solve itself.... |
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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18 |
you dont just upgrade to 64 bit. but with a calculation error, it propably wouldnt. |
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Lithorus Unregistered |
Yes, you can actually quite easily upgrade to 64-bit code. And they refer to the "calculation error" is because it's 4 byte limit'ed (32-bit). Remember this is from the press, they don't always know what they are talking about |


