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Submission + - Google Amps Up Search With 'Caffeine' (computerworld.com)

CWmike writes: Google has introduced a new Web indexing system called Caffeine that delivers search results that are closer to 'live' than Google's previous system, the company said on Tuesday. Previously, Google would crawl a fraction of the Web each night, index it and push it out in its results. With Caffeine, as Google crawls the Web and finds new information, it indexes it immediately. 'We process it immediately so we can serve it seconds later,' said Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team. Caffeine went live 'in the last few days' and is now being used in all Google data centers, he said. In addition to serving 'fresher' results, Caffeine 'massively increases our ability to scale up,' Cutts said. The company will be able to index many more documents — 'on the order of 100 petabytes,' he said. Caffeine adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day, Google said in a blog post.

Comment Feeds from the ROVs (Score 5, Insightful) 343

BP has been providing live feeds of all the ROV missions to the wellhead for the last few days. For those who are curious, here's a pretty decent site hosting all the feeds from the ROVs. Pretty fascinating to watch all the work going on around the BOP, occasionally you can follow a few of the ROVs as they wander off to find old pipelines or prepare the Q4000 direct connection. In a tragic way it almost feels like watching the Titanic discovery all over again.

Comment Re:As much genre as you want (Score 1) 502

So I'm wondering if this will become a problem for kids of the future. Loading up their ipods with hours and hours of a particular style, then getting bored with it. I like having an appreciation for particular authors.

It already happens with us.

As a 17 year old who listens to about seven hours of music a day and has a subscription to Rhapsody, an unlimited music service, I switch genre about every month. With Rhapsody, (Well this is sounding like an advertisement) I don't have pay wall barrier that a lot of kids have and don't require friends to buy and expose them to new music (Same could be said to some degree for pirates.) and that frees things up enough that I get so overdosed with music that I transition the moment something get's "boring".

Yes, I'm completely spoiled that I can't enjoy a genre of music for more than a month, but a year later, I'll be coming back to that genre after doing a 360 around the music world only to find new artist and new releases to enjoy. Some things stick, even if you move on. And now with software giving us perfect recall of what you listened to a year ago, you can come back to an artist that you like a lot.

It's not as bad as you think it might be.

Comment Giving Credit Where Due? (Score 1) 315

I was watching this thinking, hey, that music sounds awfully familiar? Dug through my music collection and found the music in the video (Which does add a good deal of the "awesome" factor.) is a splicing of the song "In The House- In A Heartbeat" from the original soundtrack of 28 Days Later by John Murphy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYYEDXaGo0

Comment Only One Possibility... (Score 1) 304

So both Apple and AT&T are denying responsibility for the Google Voice app. There is only one possibility then; the App Store has gained sentience and is now taking Apple's directives to their logical conclusions. Expect news of Pre and Android users mysteriously disappearing in the next few days.

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