Wednesday Caffeine, Google’s new web indexing system, went live. Announcing the global release of Caffeine, Google said its evolving search engine technology makes even a lot more freshly minted web content available and delivers that new content faster than before. Nobody will change the way they use Google. But links to a wider range of relevant content are now presented much sooner following the content has really been published. The Caffeine overhaul of the web indexing technology also provides Google much a lot more flexibility to keep pace with a web that is evolving at an ever increasing rate.
Google Caffeine launch – speed isn’t everything
Google said the Caffeine launch delivers at least 50 percent fresher search results. It may be hard to translate into the advantage for average Google Users. PCWorld tested a side-by-side comparison of web indexing systems when Caffeine was in development and found that results took .15 seconds on the regular Google search and .09 seconds on Caffeine Google search. No one else could be able to repeat that test now, given that Caffeine is now the regular Google search. And .06 seconds probably won’t make much of a big difference for searchers. However, what shows up .06 seconds faster will make a difference for content publishing.
Some real time content publishing
The urgent benefit of the Google Caffeine launch to the average user is fresher content, and a lot more of it. Google’s Matt Cutts told Search Engine Land that that “Caffeine benefits both searchers and content owners because it means that all content (and not just content deemed “real time”) can be searchable within seconds after it is crawled.” It was reported by Search Engine Land the old Google would crawl a set of pages, process those pages and add them to the index. All the pages within the batch had to wait until the whole batch was processed to be made available on Google. Now Google crawls and processes pages individually and instantly.
Caffeine has astronomical storage capacity
For Caffeine to eliminate the delay between when it finds a page and makes it accessible to the public requires an astronomical amount of storage. Carrie Grimes said Caffeine indexed web pages on an tremendous scale. Hundreds of thousands of pages are processed each second by Google. 3 miles high each second is how much paper pages processed at that rate would make. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds a whole lot of new info at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need to have 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles. PC World adds that the bill from Apple would be $155,625,000.
Keeping up with the Caffeine system
The Google Caffeine launch doesn’t change any of the web searching or content publishing. Resource Shelf has pointed out an essential detail. Info changes daily. The Cache and the page is refreshed more often. If a searcher needs content on a page the way it looked at noon on Wednesday, it’s smart to make a copy with something like Zotero, a Firefox extension because by 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday the content on the page might modify when the cache is updated.
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PC World
pcworld.com/article/198384/google_jolts_search_with_fresher_results_with_caffeine.html?tk=hp_blg
Searchengineland.com
searchengineland.com/googles-new-indexing-infrastructure-caffeine-now-live-43891?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: searchengineland (Search Engine Land)&utm_content=Google Reader
Official Google Blog
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