Searching and how Google works
Saw an interesting post on how google works on weblogs.asp.net (I can't find that post so apologies to its author) and after a google search :) came across this. I can understand that google is a powerful piece of technology and works very well in the way its intended to (free text searching over masses after masses of text data), the fact that its true distributed computing also holds me in awe. The trouble is how can it be applied to other search types, for example a website search that uses a database to control its searching (using say a SP to look at table, virtual table or view - or mixture). Not amazingly accurate, sometimes slow ( for example if the search is so open the data coming back is large in size), it often does it the job but its no where near the google technology for performance (granted the google suff is very targeted in its operation). I am left wondering if the two could be merged how database data could be sloted into a distributed high performance system like the google one, if anyone has any comments, thoughts or knows of any research in this area then let me know.
Update: using Jesse's archive system I found the previous post on how google works.