> Is just not rigth that google answer faster than a local disk search. A while back, I had just bought a new desktop. I couldn't just use the hodgepodge of ~

> Is just not rigth that google answer faster than a local disk search. A while back, I had just bought a new desktop. I couldn't just use the hodgepodge of ~1280 MB worth of RAM from my old desktop because it was a different technology, but I also couldn't afford a GB of ram that would work with the new desktop. I kept my old desktop on the network, made a big ramdisk out of 1GB of its RAM, and exposed it to the network as a network block device (kernel driver was called 'nbd'). I mounted that device on my new desktop and used it for swap, because it was orders of magnitude to eat all the transmission, TCP, etc delays in exchange for not having to hit disk platters. .... which is _really not all that different_ from why google can return search results faster than you can search your local hard drive.