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Feb 20 2009

Google: A thousand machines to perform one search

Sardar Mohkim Khan 

image thumb167 Google: A thousand machines to perform one search

I would have gladly believed Google’s datacenters to have been the most environment friendly and efficient had I not come across reading that each query on Google utilizes a thousand machines. That number is almost a thousand times what it used to be a decade back. Although the latency for each has improved by leaps and bonds but it reveals how energy efficient its datacenters are.

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