Comments on: Google's Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage

By: For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money: Tech News «

For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money: Tech News « — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:14:49 +0000

[...] few years ago, in a post I noted that infrastructure was Google’s key competitive advantage. It is what allowed the company to innovate and outpace its rivals. It allowed the company to give [...]

By: Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale

Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:24:26 +0000

[...] after deciding latency in the cloud was too high. Perhaps Twitter, like Facebook and Google (the granddaddy of webscale infrastructure), has decided that aside from custom code, it needs a custom home for its hardware to ensure a [...]

By: Behind Caffeine May Be Software to Inspire Hadoop 2.0

Behind Caffeine May Be Software to Inspire Hadoop 2.0 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:28:08 +0000

[...] But the allure of Caffeine isn’t just the actual real-time search engine, it’s the secret infrastructure sauce that Google uses to make a continuing real-time index of the entire web possible. That technology [...]

By: Facebook: A Billion Likes? Don’t Worry Our Infrastructure Can Handle It

Facebook: A Billion Likes? Don’t Worry Our Infrastructure Can Handle It — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:47:36 +0000

[...] billion likes” might generate,” Schroepfer remarked. It is clear that Facebook has learnt from Google that infrastructure is a vital and a strategic advantage. No wonder they are building their own data centers. I think that is one of the reasons they allow [...]

By: Stat Shot: Google’s Growing Infrastructure Advantage | Yooxe

Stat Shot: Google’s Growing Infrastructure Advantage | Yooxe — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:02:56 +0000

[...] cut its costs and boost its ability to better serve customers. For Google, which has long seen its infrastructure as a competitive advantage, the ability to keep its mighty web traffic on its own network rather than pay others to deliver it [...]

By: Stat Shot: Google’s Growing Infrastructure Advantage – GigaOM

Stat Shot: Google’s Growing Infrastructure Advantage – GigaOM — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:50:40 +0000

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:10:10 +0000

I can agree with most of this article, except the part apart their search results. Every now and again, I will jump on bing or yahoo and they just dont give me as many quality results. Google is just better. And Now they have picked up their real time search game adding twitter and the like. Type in Los Angeles weather in the search bar, you get the results before your done typing. No need to even hit enter. You can't get those type of results anywhere else. So now its there job to keep innovating.

By: The State of Google Apps – GigaOM

The State of Google Apps – GigaOM — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:58:30 +0000

[...] All Google Apps are written on top of the Google File System, which gives the company the unique ability to not only write data to multiple locations insider a specific data center, but also across the multiple data center locations that make up the global Google infrastructure. Since these globally dispersed locations are connected to each other with very high-speed fiber connections, Google can literally save bits of your information across the globe. (Related: Google’s Infrastructure Is Its Strategic Advantage.) [...]

By: 1999-2009: How Broadband Changed Everything – GigaOM

1999-2009: How Broadband Changed Everything – GigaOM — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:33:28 +0000

[...] a pesky little upstart in 2000, it has been the single biggest beneficiary of the broadband boom. Not only did it turn the Internet into a strategic advantage, but it managed to bottled that lightening on its first try. Because [...]

By: 为什么 Google 因该害怕社交网站的威力 | 谷奥——探寻谷歌的奥秘

为什么 Google 因该害怕社交网站的威力 | 谷奥——探寻谷歌的奥秘 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:09:21 +0000

[...] 信息。Google 却忽视它自己明显处于优势的网页搜索服务，去面对这些堆积如山的 [...]