The Secret Source of Google's Power

Very interesting article from Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net

The Secret Source of Google's Power



Here are some snippets:

Google's snippet service, required that they store the entire web in RAM.

Google has built their own distributed, fault-tolerant, petabyte filesystem, the Google Filesystem.

Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. This computer is running the world's top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages enginelt a single very large, custom computer.