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That's a very cynical interpretation. Even if Google wants to sell websearch software, there will be so few customers since it would cost billions of dollars t
by btian 9y ago
That's a very cynical interpretation.
Even if Google wants to sell websearch software, there will be so few customers since it would cost billions of dollars to buy machines to run them, you'll need to build DC, get power etc.
And what's wrong with services anyway?
- z3t4 9y agoGoogle have infrastructure to to serve billions of requests per second, that is not be needed if you only serve yourself. Now imagine if every-one would scrape the web as often as Google does. :P Your mobile phone can run some billions of instructions per second. Now imagine a server case, or a rack. Compute power is very dense. And very cheap. The entire wikipedia (text only) can be stored on a micro-sim. eg a few mm.
- ttsda 9y agoYou probably meant micro-SD. And the amount of text content contained in Wikipedia is an atomically sized drop in the Internet's ocean.