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I think you misunderstand the nature of stemming; the point is that each and every user's inbox would have to be processed individually, and apparently Google d
by antipaganda 17y ago
I think you misunderstand the nature of stemming; the point is that each and every user's inbox would have to be processed individually, and apparently Google doesn't think the overhead is worth the results.
- anurag 17y agoI understand stemming. I just think the webpage contrast is not a good explanation for why they're not doing it. Building an unstemmed search index per user is also expensive, and helps only the recipient, but they do it because they think the expense is necessary. They stem webpages because they think the expense is necessary. They don't stem mails because they think the expense is not justified, not because the only person who benefits is the recipient.
- sachinag 17y agoIt is also expensive, but it is less expensive than doing that AND stemming. They just decided that stemming was a line where the benefit (add'l users, more use of Gmail, more AdSense revenue, whatever metric) wasn't worth the (development and ongoing processing) costs.
- jhancock 17y agoThis is a drawback to putting everything in the cloud: features will be weighed by the CPU cycles and storage required by the providers. Can't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;). I'm only half joking. I actually can't wait until things mature enough so we have a hybrid of both models. Then I can decide just how much stuff I want indexed and also not worry what happens when my cable modem flakes out.
- gloob 17y agoCan't wait til we come full circle and get back to client/server computing ;). The next big hype cycle: OS as an OS.