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Better Than Google?
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 08:13.What's better than Google Search? Ok, I can think of lots of things I like better than Google Search; my wife and daughter, my guitar, pumpkin pie ... But what could be better for searching for stuff online than Google Search?
Well, I happened to meet the President of Semanti Corp. at the Fast Track Business Super Conference a couple of weeks ago. He had an answer to that question and it's called SemantiFind.
So Google is worth how many billions? Their database is how huge???
63,272 Machines
126,544 Processors
253,088 GHz Proccessing ability
126,544 GB Memory
5,062 TB Hard Drive Space
I found these stats on a forum page. I don't know if they're accurate but someone on the forum "verifies" they are, for around the year 2006. I'm sure they've grown a LOT since then. These numbers are staggering. I find most people can't wrap their minds around how big a Gigabyte really is, never mind 5 Petabytes!!! ...continue reading »
George Carlin was a F'n Genius!
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 05:24.14ucomics.net
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 04:10.My good old friend, (emphasis on the old :), is heading up a cool project AND challenging the system at the same time. He's collaborating with artists and writers from around the world to produce an independent comic with a twist.
I think it's cool. I have the first issue in my hot little hands and I see potential. If you're into comics, and RPGs, you might like to check this out on the ground floor so 10 years from now you can say, I was there in the beginning.
He's got a lot of work to do to make something that will stand though. Check it out. Support it if you like it. ...continue reading »
Ubuntu - Not Just a Linux Distro
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 17:46.I have more thoughts on this topic than I have time to write at the moment.