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Wish Google Research would actually give better insight into their approaches or proposed approaches. This paper while interesting is a lot of data analysis. IT
by Irishsteve 15y ago
Wish Google Research would actually give better insight into their approaches or proposed approaches. This paper while interesting is a lot of data analysis. IT's not like anyone out there could go and replicate Youtube.
P.s I understand a company not wanting to give away secret sauce but if they are publishing this info at academic conferences it would be great to get some proper insight.
- esrauch 15y agoTheir other papers are about BigTable or load balancing systems that the researchers developed for an immediate business need of the company, and then published an overview of their work incidentally after the fact. I have seen very little come out that was even analysis that wasn't necessary to do internally if the company was never going to publish anything. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like Google and Amazon follow this model much more than other companies like IBM or Microsoft who more often publish much more theoretical on not-yet-practical work that is only in the direction of their goals rather than already productionized well before it gets published.