Google CEO admits - "We have a huge machine crisis - those machines are full". New York Times article Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race - paragraph on page 2 that quotes Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) admitting that they have problems with being able to store more web site information because their "machines are full"
They are having to spend at least 1.5 Billion Dollars to expand their storage capacity!
At least now we know why massive numbers of pages have disappeared from the SERPS/DCs!
One big question remains - how long will it be before they are back to crawling/indexing properly again??!!
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JeevesBond posted this at 11:49—4th May 2006.
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This is interesting news! So this is why Google has been returning some weird results.
I would also question why this has happened, the number of pages the bot has to index can't have increased that much. Surely just looking at Internet growth trends they should have been able to predict how much storage they'd need?
The technology they use is open source and free, information about Google itself certainly isn't! Maybe improvements to their algorithm meant they were suddenly able to index more pages (dynamic content for instance)?
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Ashish posted this at 06:55—5th May 2006.
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i would say that even their analytics software is not working properly... according to it we sold only 16 accounts last week
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ab420 posted this at 03:52—6th May 2006.
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WOW. That is big news.
The Webmistress posted this at 08:31—6th May 2006.
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Here's another story on it
http://www.theregister.com/2006/05/04/google_bigdaddy_chaos/
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SeoProfessional posted this at 20:21—6th May 2006.
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I read that MSN is set to spend 2 Billion on their Search engine. Google says that's not fair.
teammatt3 posted this at 23:04—8th May 2006.
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No wonder they are having problems with space http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Farticlez.com&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official that site has been down for more than a year.
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cnun posted this at 08:18—9th May 2006.
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Hmm..... Although i don't like google much, but i hope at least got some giants to balance the power from Mircosoft...... as the article say : "For its part, Google wants to avoid becoming the "next Netscape," a reference to the early leader in the browser market that Microsoft eventually thwarted"
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locatepeople posted this at 09:07—9th May 2006.
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that does make sense, some of my sites are doing really well on google while others of equal value don't show up.
Hopeully they'll get the problem sorted out, they are the web's number 1.
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antispyware posted this at 18:36—9th May 2006.
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thats why, nowadays i am finding that google is not indexing my sites regularly.
previously it used to visit almost daily.
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