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need explanation about Google

bohuskbohusk
edited June 2008 in Chit chat
When I type something into Google and press Enter, I get results in miliseconds. When I am searching something in my local Windows, it takes ages in comparison to Google.

How is this possible ?

I assume, the Google server is a huge disk array.
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  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited June 2008
    I don't know. Usually when I try to find something by looking through my local window, all I see is the tree outside and have to resort to Google anyways.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2008
    Oh I would love to have a tree outside my window. All I can see it a weed infested courtyard and the remains of a barbeque that the guys in a different apartment never bothered to clean up. :)
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    I am pretty sure that a certain PK (nudge, nudge, know what I mean, eh?) could answer this in finite detail. He's the local Google advocate.
  • sparkessparkes
    edited June 2008
    Windows doesn't have a massive array of computers crunching the data into databases and a massive array of computers caching common searches the other side :)

    Even if google wasn't so efficient with it's caching it's always going to be quicker to search a nicely laid out database than a pile of files most of which you have to at least look at the timestamp to make sure they haven't changed since the last index.

    My other half is always using windows search and I never do. If I don't put a file in it's proper place it deserves to be lost :)
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited June 2008
    sparkes wrote: »
    Windows doesn't have a massive array of computers crunching the data into databases and a massive array of computers caching common searches the other side :)

    Even if google wasn't so efficient with it's caching it's always going to be quicker to search a nicely laid out database than a pile of files most of which you have to at least look at the timestamp to make sure they haven't changed since the last index.

    My other half is always using windows search and I never do. If I don't put a file in it's proper place it deserves to be lost :)

    Windohs Vista attempts to do this. It uses slack time to index your files so that searches are instant.
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  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    (nudge, nudge, know what I mean, eh?)

    A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat :wink: :wink:
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited June 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Windohs Vista attempts to do this. It uses slack time to index your files so that searches are instant.

    Tranpose "slack time" to read "every time the PC reboots" and you'll be closer - that was my experience anyway. Used to last at least an hour and a half until I figured out how to turn it off completely.
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited June 2008
    Vampyre wrote: »
    Tranpose "slack time" to read "every time the PC reboots" and you'll be closer - that was my experience anyway. Used to last at least an hour and a half until I figured out how to turn it off completely.

    Ouch!! mine and my wifes laptops are plagued with Vista. The bootup times have been quite quick for me.

    Funny though, my XP installation goes back to 2003. I booted my computer and my Spectrum at the same time. After switching on my PC and Spectrum I loaded Manic Miner from cassete on the Spectrum and you can guess which one finished first.
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