panzer77
May 6th, 2005, 01:39 AM
This Fortune article “Gates vs. Google” got me doing a little pondering.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065-1,00.html
How could Hybrid Linux distribution with an integrated Google or Beagel search tool change how we use our operating system. Could a company like Google, powered by 250,000 Linux servers give Linux the push it needs?
“Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries per day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average
response time of less than a quarter of a second with near-100% uptime.”
form: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/f02-cse494-mailarchive/msg00138.html
The Fortune article ends with some interesting thoughts... This one really got me going down this road.
“beating Google is the same as beating any of Microsoft's previous challengers. It's still about writing software that is easier to use, and the easiest-to-use software is always the kind that's integrated with what people already have-like Windows or MSN. Gates says that when Microsoft is done integrating search into future versions of Windows and Office, the world will look back at the way we are now "Googling" for stuff on the Internet and laugh. "The idea that you type in these words [in the search box] that aren't sentences and you don't get any answers-you just get back all these things you have to click on-that is so antiquated," he says, later adding, "We need to take search way beyond how people think of it today and just have it be naturally available, based on the task they want to do." For example, if you wanted to look up a factoid while you were writing a document, you might search for it without ever leaving Word.”
Just wanted to provoke a little discussion.
Thanks to all the folks that have worked so very hard on ubuntu. I love it! Maybe we could see something like Gotu – (Hybrid Linux, Google+ubuntu) with an Google/Beagel type search engine. :idea:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065-1,00.html
How could Hybrid Linux distribution with an integrated Google or Beagel search tool change how we use our operating system. Could a company like Google, powered by 250,000 Linux servers give Linux the push it needs?
“Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries per day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average
response time of less than a quarter of a second with near-100% uptime.”
form: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/f02-cse494-mailarchive/msg00138.html
The Fortune article ends with some interesting thoughts... This one really got me going down this road.
“beating Google is the same as beating any of Microsoft's previous challengers. It's still about writing software that is easier to use, and the easiest-to-use software is always the kind that's integrated with what people already have-like Windows or MSN. Gates says that when Microsoft is done integrating search into future versions of Windows and Office, the world will look back at the way we are now "Googling" for stuff on the Internet and laugh. "The idea that you type in these words [in the search box] that aren't sentences and you don't get any answers-you just get back all these things you have to click on-that is so antiquated," he says, later adding, "We need to take search way beyond how people think of it today and just have it be naturally available, based on the task they want to do." For example, if you wanted to look up a factoid while you were writing a document, you might search for it without ever leaving Word.”
Just wanted to provoke a little discussion.
Thanks to all the folks that have worked so very hard on ubuntu. I love it! Maybe we could see something like Gotu – (Hybrid Linux, Google+ubuntu) with an Google/Beagel type search engine. :idea: