Will new indexer give Kartels the jitters?
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Year after year the world’s largest and most famous music and movie indexing site, owned by the world’s largest and most (in)famous online advertising company, escapes the attentions of Korporate Kopyright Klans Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount, MGM.
Will its newest venture, promoted as pushing the envelope on, “size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions,” attract non-stop lawsuits and accusations of thievery and crime?
Nope. Because the company is Google, which is now promoting its newest indexing venture, code-named ‘caffeine’.
“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search,” says Gargle.
The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, “which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results”.
Anyhow, the company wants outside developers to do its work for it for free. But for the moment it, “only want feedback on the differences between Google’s current search results and our new system”.
But, say Googlers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts, “We’re also interested in higher-level feedback (’These types of sites seem to rank better or worse in the new system’) in addition to ‘This specific site should or shouldn’t rank for this query.’ Engineers will be reading the feedback, but we won’t have the cycles to send replies.”
Does that mean contributions will vanish into a black hole?
Iyer andCutts go on, “Here’s how to give us feedback: Do a search at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and look on the search results page for a link at the bottom of the page that says “Dissatisfied? Help us improve.” Click on that link, type your feedback in the text box and then include the word caffeine somewhere in the text box. Thanks in advance for your feedback!”
For the heck of it, we used Microsoft’s new Bing search engine to see if Cutts has a blog, and he does.
On it, in response to the question “Is this Caffeine Update because of Company X or Y (X or Y? Wonder who they might be? 
) is doing Z?” – he promises, “Nope. I love competition in search and want lots of it, but this change has been in the works for months.”
Now you know.
Gargle - Help test some next-generation infrastructure, August 10, 2009
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August 12th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Interesting development … i searched for “torrent metallica” …
the normal google …
-isohunt search results
-discography
new cafeine …
first hit … discography in 320 kbps
it seems like the new engine is better in getting HQ torrents
so searching torrents wit google will still be possible!
August 12th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Jon, Jon, Jon. Will you never learn? Google is not above the law. It IS the law!