Colm Buckley wrote:
> Hah!
>> We already cache a significant chunk of the entire Internet. A million
> users with 1GB of storage each isn't that much, comparatively-speaking.
Yeah but this data will be more compact and will allow for the easy
identification of social networks. Google has to have a few more
elements in its favour when Microsoft's search product finally goes head
to head with it and this will be direct hit on Microsoft's Hotmail
operation.
From experience, the bulk of the internet is a largely static set of
data with the majority of pages changing on a yearly basis. With e-mail,
there is a continual update though having local access makes the whole
process a lot easier for Google. The most interesting thing that may
come out of this would be the fast uptake of PGP and similar mail
encryption or steno packages. Though Google may just have something in
the T&C about using encrypted e-mail.
Regards...jmcc
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