One Google Search Uses 1000 Computers [Gooooooogle]
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Every time you Google "Krispy Kreme hamburger" or "how to relieve animal virus" or "optical device cats," it takes the physical process power of up to 1,000 machines.
In a talk at WSDM 2009, Google Male person Jeff Dean disclosed no applied mathematics about how Google's trading operations have fully grown from 1999 to 2009, and it's beautiful mind-boggling. Queries have lost up by a factor of 1000, yet search lagtime has born about 1000ms to just 200ms—nearly instant.
The reason a single search can take up to 1,000 computers now—instead of say, a dozen—is that Google's whole search index is held entirely in storage device. All time I try to think about how large that index mustiness be I get a head ache. I'm beautiful sure if I unsaturated on it too hard, my head would pop. [Labnol via Maximum PC, Image of old-school Google participant via Coding Horror]