Has Google run out?

[weta]

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[Mr. C]

So is everyone going back to Excite?

Of course the web will indeed continue to grow. Question is how many of these sites-to-come will be of consequence.

Likely to be a small percentage indeed. Not difficult to concieve of them being added manually, so to speak as sites of merit are found.

Google has never been a static creature, and development is ongoing.

I'd certainly hate to see development stop, but at this time I just can't imagine that is going to happen in the near future.

Ah well, perhaps it is time to dust off the links to those "deep web" search engines, they always did turn up some bizarrely interesting reading anyway.

[minibubba]

all problems have a solution, I'm sure they will find one for this problem too...of course that is only if this 'rumor ' is true

I'd like to hear from google if this is actually the case, and if they can/will do anything about it before everyone gets in a panic over losing their current favorite search engine

[asklepios]

i guess this is why they developed that page rank system.
they might be getting rid of the pages with very low page ranks as they are quite irrelevant or might not be offering good content (thus getting low hits) but then this is just a speculation.

we should rather move this thread to "rumours and speculations" forums :p

[Wiggo]

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we should rather move this thread to "rumours and speculations" forums :p

I'll not only 2nd the motion but move it as well. :laugh:

[zeradul]

I too am confident in Google's ability to cope. If this really is a problem, then they will just start (as was mentioned) bumping off the sites at the very very bottom, until it is convienient to upgrade, and since they are constantly upgrading, this is no big deal, whatsoever, and no doubt they have been planning for it since day 1.

[Dyck15]

Could someone sorta clarify whats happening here? I somewhat understand but then I dont get it at all:o

[zeradul]

Its pretty much exactly like reaching a limit of a File system. (2 GB barrier, 32 GB barrier, 137 GB Barrier) Which is pretty much like reaching a limit of phone numbers. So when you are assigning homes with phone numbers, and you start with 555-0000 and you get to 555-9999 then all of a sudden you have to change the format to accomodate more. And so that isn't a great example, but lets say we fill up all the area codes, and so every number from 000-000-0000 to 999-999-9999 is taken, then all of a sudden, the format would have to change.

So why don't they just start with some HUGE number?, because each number takes up space, and in an extremely extensive file system, it becomes bulky and inefficient. And so for Google's system to have lasted 6 years, that is alot and they were very forward thinking in 1997 to do it the way they did.

Honestly, from an engineering perspective, this is nothing more than a system wide renovation.

[Wiggo]

This is why 64bit processin' will eventually take over from our current 32bit and servers will likely go to 128bit to address this need though there are a couple of other ways around this but they're far to technical for me to explain (needs someone with more grey matter than me to explain it better).