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Old 05-10-2008, 03:03 PM
Malcolm Dew-Jones
 
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Default Re: Oracle chief architect says there ought to be one Linux

joel garry (joel-garry@home.com) wrote:

: I think google (...snip...)
: ... And two identical searches _still_ may not give consistent
: results.

Since when is google supposed to give consistent results?

That would be a _bad_ thing.

Any algorithm that can tries to reduce terabytes of data into one useful
page of information must be making a lot of assumptions. If a result page
doesn't change pretty frequently then that would be the sign of a terrible
algorithm.

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