Found this site talking about Google‘s strange behaviour as of late. I haven’t noticed it as much as some people, but I have noticed some strange downtime and weird search results.

These guys think that google might have finally hit the magic 32-bit maximum, 4.2 billion pages. If so, then they might be trying to re-write all their code to use 64 bit integers, or possibly something even stranger. Either way, it’s an interesting article about some of the issues you never think about for large-scale systems. How do you quickly store & retrieve data on the entire internet?

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