Date:         Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:56:02 -0500
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Subject:      Re: How to Search SAS-L Archives for a Topic

"David L. Ward" <dward@SASHELP.COM> wrote in message
news:NEBBIMOAKLOJJKLHICKCGEOHCHAA.dward@sashelp.com...
> In general I find the listserv search interface at UGA to be MUCH slower
> than the google search.  This makes sense, because google's whole reason
for
> existence is to provide a fast yet far-reaching search.  I stand in awe of
> how fast it can search for exact phrases, supposedly from millions (or
> billions) or documents.

<Snip>

For those interested, Item 1 from page
http://groups.google.com/press/highlights.html
states
<quote>
...
Milestones include:

- Scaling Google's core technology to conduct more than 150 million searches
per day by building the web's largest index of web pages (over 2 billion),
powered by the world's largest commercial Linux cluster (more than 10,000
servers).
</quote>

Wow! I wonder the erg/result rating is.

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Richard A. DeVenezia