{"id":23620,"date":"2018-12-07T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23620"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:34:25","slug":"the-friendship-that-made-google-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friendship That Made Google Huge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/10\/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge\">James Somers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/10\/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge\">\n<p>Jeff and Sanjay began poring over the stalled index. They discovered that some words were missing&mdash;they&rsquo;d search for &ldquo;mailbox&rdquo; and get no results&mdash;and that others were listed out of order. For days, they looked for flaws in the code, immersing themselves in its logic. Section by section, everything checked out. They couldn&rsquo;t find the bug.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On Sanjay&rsquo;s monitor, a thick column of 1s and 0s appeared, each row representing an indexed word. Sanjay pointed: a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1. When Jeff and Sanjay put all the missorted words together, they saw a pattern&mdash;the same sort of glitch in every word. Their machines&rsquo; memory chips had somehow been corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When a car goes around a turn, more ground must be covered by the outside wheels; likewise, the outer edge of a spinning hard disk moves faster than the inner one. Google had moved the most frequently accessed data to the outside, so that bits could flow faster under the read-head, but had left the inner half empty; Jeff and Sanjay used the space to store preprocessed data for common search queries. Over four days in 2001, they proved that Google&rsquo;s index could be stored using fast random-access memory instead of relatively slow hard drives; the discovery reshaped the company&rsquo;s economics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Somers: Jeff and Sanjay began poring over the stalled index. They discovered that some words were missing&mdash;they&rsquo;d search for &ldquo;mailbox&rdquo; and get no results&mdash;and that others were listed out of order. For days, they looked for flaws in the code, immersing themselves in its logic. Section by section, everything checked out. They couldn&rsquo;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T21:34:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"99fe28b3-6bd3-4370-a451-7db488e0021a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-07T21:34:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Amf4os2vTQ3CkUX20iOACGg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51,295,138,71,1056,343],"class_list":["post-23620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-google","tag-history","tag-optimization","tag-programming","tag-ram","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23621,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions\/23621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}