Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

[Jabberwocky]

I hate to squash your dreams in a callous and efficient manner but I feel I must. How does hacking a bit of distributed processing on to search engine make you money - I could do it in my sleep - the only viable option in this sort of area is if a big company buys you out. Why would they do that ? You offer no expertise that couldn't be easily reproduced. You have patented your revolutionary search engine technology, haven't you ?

[AtW]

You will see

[bogeyman]

No ads just yet - I am scaling it up, had update 10 days ago and will have one this week, by the end of February I will get to 1 bln pages which is reasonably respectable - I think its Top 10 in the world.

After actual search traffic will pick it will make sense to think about ads, even though I have other short-term plans on how to earn dosh from data

So you have a SE in the "Top 10 in the world"?

On what metric?

Can you provide a URL to this wonder?

How do your searches per minute stack up against the real 'top-n' players (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Jeeves, Excite, ...) ?

Oh, you just mean you indexed a billion pages of crap but nobody uses your search engine?

You are an unparalleled genius Sir, and I take of my hat to you

Bogey

[AtW]

So you have a SE in the "Top 10 in the world"?

I will have - based on index size.

[bogeyman]

I will have - based on index size.

And what are you hosting this indexing marvell on ATW?

Do you have a massive array of 1U blades in a disused aircraft hanger or something?

Maybe a large basement-full of IBM z/Series mainframes?

What sort of comms backbone?

Are you selling shares?

Bogey

[AtW]

And what are you hosting this indexing marvell on ATW?

Why do you care?

[bogeyman]

Why do you care?

I don't care.

You're full of tulip.

[n3il123]

Awww thats a bit harsh

[bogeyman]

Awww thats a bit harsh

Harsh but fair, my friend - harsh but fair.

[n3il123]

can't argue with that...