[olug] Google on Linux

[Joe Catanzaro]

This isn't very related to Linux, but you've probably noticed that when you 
search for something on Google there's a link for a cached copy of the 
returned link? So my question is, when the Google spiders/robots crawl the 
web, do they make a copy of the result to Google's server farm, and if so, 
does that mean that Google probably has a backup copy of the entire web? 
And how many terabytes is that?

Also, has anyone bought/read O'reilly's Google Hacks? Any good?

Several years ago (I think) Google had one of the largest Linux clusters at 
around 8000 boxes. Do they still have the largest? If not, who does?

Thanks and sorry for the totally random questions,



Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net