Google and the Net

[Declan McCullagh]

Huh? There's little to search with when it comes to images, unless
you pull from the surrounding content, which Google does.

There are several orders of magnitude difference between storing web
page-size content and the kind of filename-size content that would
appear in image titles and descriptions.

In other words, an index of just JPG image titles would be far
smaller than an index of the same number of web pages (though the
binary files themselves, which won't be indexed, would likely consume
more space).

-Declan


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:50:40PM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> Very nice analysis.
> 
> If you greatly reduce Google's speed of search, what kind of 
> compression-gains can you get?   Imagine an archive which is
> highly compressed [1] but used mostly to counter censorship.
> 
> [1] That JPGs etc. are already highly compressed means that
> if you keep pictures, you won't gain as much by trading off
> search speed for compression.