Google DB Engine ?

[dustyLazyBoy]

Hi,

I was so lost in Google Desktop Search last night, I kept on dreaming
about the endless possiblisties of Google Search Technology.

While I was in school I had read enough about DB information
retrivial. Why can't google use their search technology to build
Database engine ? Isn't that a possiblity ?


Am I still dreaming or am I awake ?

Cheers,
da_LazyBoy

[David Portas]

Re: Google DB Engine ?

Search is of course only part of the technology required for a database.
Also, search of unstructured text in web pages is quite different to data
retrieval in an RDBMS and RDBMS still dominates the commercial market... But
who knows? Give them 18 months...

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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[dustyLazyBoy]

Re: Google DB Engine ?

"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_ REPLYING_dporta s@acm.org> wrote in message news:<z5SdnWvUF cMy0OzcRVn-tA@giganews.com >...[color=blue]
> Search is of course only part of the technology required for a database.
> Also, search of unstructured text in web pages is quite different to data
> retrieval in an RDBMS and RDBMS still dominates the commercial market...[/color]

But who knows? Give them 18 months...
Exactly...Maybe even shorter time....Million s of Dollars are at stake
if they can do something...

[debashish]

Re: Google DB Engine ?

hello guys
there are a lot of fundamental differences between a Search engine
and a database. Both are very much distinct from one another. So can
google really build up a database of its own? thats a yes-no sort of
question.

If things would have been such easy and it would have ben possible
for a search engine developer to construct an RDBMS and vice-versa
then guys! Microsoft and Oracle would have each created some sort of
fastest search engines and linked them to their company web sites.

Developing a database requires years of skilled expertise in not only
the database technologies but also the age old database concepts which
are still dominant today.

So friends at last it stands that 'This is not an easy task(even in
18 months)'
not only for google but also for any other IT-giants.

Regards
Debashish

[dustyLazyBoy]

Re: Google DB Engine ?

We are just talking of a DB engine and not the DB itself. Just a component of it :)

Cheers
da_LazyBoy

debashish_majum dar@rediffmail. com (debashish) wrote in message news:<bb05cfc5. 0410170336.4899 957e@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> hello guys
> there are a lot of fundamental differences between a Search engine
> and a database. Both are very much distinct from one another. So can
> google really build up a database of its own? thats a yes-no sort of
> question.
>
> If things would have been such easy and it would have ben possible
> for a search engine developer to construct an RDBMS and vice-versa
> then guys! Microsoft and Oracle would have each created some sort of
> fastest search engines and linked them to their company web sites.
>
> Developing a database requires years of skilled expertise in not only
> the database technologies but also the age old database concepts which
> are still dominant today.
>
> So friends at last it stands that 'This is not an easy task(even in
> 18 months)'
> not only for google but also for any other IT-giants.
>
> Regards
> Debashish[/color]

[Vaxman]

Re: Google DB Engine ?

Take a look at Google's architecture here:
http://faculty.uwb.edu/aberger/CSS42...20architecture.
pdf

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