Change for Sure. Scale? Nope. Facebook? Yep.
June 12, 2011
Quote to note: I was clicking around and came across a four page encomium to Google. You will want to read “Google: Scale Changes Everything” and try to identify the puffery from the facts. I am too tired after a tough day of paddling in the goose pond to do much of the Google thing. However, three was a juicy quote I want to note in the text of this source document from the business cat’s paw Forbes Magazine blogs:
Google is very secretive about how it does search — it has developed specialized chips it won’t patent, because it doesn’t want to show design ideas — but Coughran says they system is completely overhauled every couple of years. “You can tweak a system to handle data two or 10 times faster, but with this growth we have to do it 1000 times faster.”
Great stuff. Secret chips. Astounding performance.
Just one thing. I think the story should have been “Facebook: Competition Changes Everything.” Now that’s news, not secret chips and the wonders of 24,000 smart folks who are lagging Amazon, Apple, and Facebook.
Honk.
Stephen E Arnold, June 12, 2011
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