“The rate at which the Google computing system has grown is as remarkable as its size. In March 2001, when the company was serving about 70 million Web pages daily, it had 8,000 computers, according to a Microsoft researcher granted anonymity to talk about a detailed tour he was given at one of Google’s Silicon Valley computing centers. By 2003 the number had grown to 100,000.”
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power, Published: June 14, 2006, nytimes.com
100,000 servers? Holy cow! I also have a copy of this artilce in PDF format if you’d like to read it.
Entry posted at 10:52 pm on Wednesday, June 14th, 2006, and it is filed under /. Tid Bits, Observations, Random Walk
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