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Internet Google BigDaddy Coming Soon; Test It Now
Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - January 31, 2006 1:42 PM
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Matt Cutts (blue shirt, center) during Pubcon 2005 - Courtesy Matt Cutts
Google is hard at work on the next generation of its search engine. You can try it out today

If you haven't read the blog of Matt Cutts, the author of Google's SafeSearch filter, now might be a good time to do so -- more specifically, his blog on BigDaddy. At first glance, the project's name may induce thoughts of strong-arm tactics, or using position to control information, but in actuality, the BigDaddy project is an entirely separate beast.

In an effort to grow, improve and reinvent itself, Google is spending a large amount of its resources on self upgrades. Typically, search companies tend not to invest too heavily into infrastructure once everything is chiming along nicely. Instead, money is spent on expansion, new features, and new services. This is in fact, common to many companies, not just search outfits. Google's BigDaddy reinvests in its core competency: search.

Matt Cutts, Google's Chief Search engineer says that with BigDaddy, Google's searches will be even more powerful, faster, larger, and stable than ever before. He also claims that because of BigDaddy's large infrastructure improvements, Google will be functioning at 100% uptime -- a claim that even some of the biggest Internet service providers around shun from. Cutts also wrote that Google has setup two brand new datacenters to deploy BigDaddy.

Right now, Google is most interested in receiving feedback for BigDaddy. As with every other Google offering, the service is still going through beta stages and will be available to more and more people as progress is made. Despite all the current news about Google being somewhat negative, it is refreshing to know that the company continually invests into making a really good thing even better.

Test out BigDaddy here.

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Those aren't the only differences.
By Lonyo on 1/31/2006 6:37:17 PM , Rating: 2
Search for "safei duo" (without quotes) as an example, and there is a music result on the new Google, while the old Google (for me www.google.co.uk, I don't know if .com is the same) this is absent.
Also the new google finds double the results.




By Lonyo on 1/31/2006 6:37:40 PM , Rating: 2
Safri Duo* made a spelling mistake.


BigDaddy
By nomagic on 1/31/2006 4:44:06 PM , Rating: 3
I really like the code name. I think its way better than Willamette, Deschutes, Yamhill from Intel, or Tiger, Panther from Apple, or even Whistler, Longhorn from MS.

But it is just my opinion. :)




Hmm
By Tegeril on 1/31/2006 2:34:25 PM , Rating: 2
Looks about the same to me. Searched for Anandtech and it did the search faster and found an additional ~1.3mil results. I'm glad it looks the same because Google already looks ideal.




better results
By vijay333 on 1/31/2006 7:06:28 PM , Rating: 2
Searched for my own name and there was a distinct improvement in search results - the common rifraff were left behind and my own pages came up first...whoo :)




"So, I think the same thing of the music industry. They can't say that they're losing money, you know what I'm saying. They just probably don't have the same surplus that they had." -- Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA









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