I was wondering how big google really is, and how they can handle so many searches. Then I found this. Here is another one Now we know how they can handle so many search querys, while still indexing sites, and managing advertisements through adsense and adwords.
I saw something on TV about how it takes a refrigerator the size of large building just to keep the Google servers cool
Wow, I knew they were big, but that much...? Is that just for the search engine or plus for the additional services such as Gmail, iGoogle, Blogger etc...?
that story is over 2 years old, can you imagine how much it's grown since then? i would love to see a picture of their server farm. -dan
That's an amazing amount of servers.. It would be cool to know how many they were doing as a startup.. before corporate funding.
How big they are : Check Stock Prices About the 450.000 servers - imagine what would happen to the world if someone bombarded the place, and destroyed all google servers Life without Google....ah...can't imagine...
I believe those 450k servers are spread all over the world. However, I can't even imagine a world without Google.
if you search, they are looking into custom building a server, the size of a building to replace all 450,000 servers.
I read all this & much more in a book (The Google Story). However, Google has grown manifold since then.
I read an article that was talking about the size of their server farms ... can't find this article any longer...