Really fast searching

Nick Arnett (narnett@Verity.COM)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:18:02 -0700


It's a bit off-topic, but I can't resist sharing something that one of our
sharp-eyed engineers found in a certain company's information page about
their search service:

> By transparently linking hundreds of data sources, ******* has
> created the world's largest integrated index, already comprised of
> more than 100 gigabytes and growing daily. A proprietary database
> engine provides immediate response time and actually increases speed
> as the size of the index grows.

We need this algorithm, our engineer says. It start off with immediate
responses, then gets faster. Wowza! ("A meeting on time travel will be
held last week.")

Nick