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Slightly off topic; Not on the Results Accuracy for a minutes.

Ob­vi­ous­ly, in­dex­ing the whole Web is crush­ing­ly ex­pen­sive, and get­ting more so ev­ery day

Why? CPU, Memory, SSD has all gotten a lot faster and bigger. Bandwidth is also a lot cheaper for Google since they essentially owns the fibre. Faster Algorithm may have an even bigger impact.

I would have thought information, in terms of text ( Not Video and Pictures which is a few order of magnitude larger ) would now be cheaper then the old days.



Developers say this type of shit all the time and people wonder why we don't have fast software.




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